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Beyond fast food: New franchising ideas draw entrepreneurs
June 29, 2016 franadmin
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The following article from The Mercury News by Joyce M. Rosenberg, Associated Press discusses how entrepreneurs are investing in new and exciting franchises options that best fit their personal goals, lifestyles and values
NEW YORK — They’re not household names like McDonald’s or The UPS Store, but small franchises beyond the usual restaurant groups and retailers are attracting buyers who want something new or different and see greater challenges and opportunities with lesser-known businesses.
Franchise buyers are taking chances on ideas like a nursing service, a personal assistant company and a used clothing retailer — companies that are tiny or growing, but don’t yet have the name recognition of thousands of locations.
“I like the feeling of family and a team and I don’t feel you can get that with a big corporate franchise,” says Tom Wicklow, who’s buying a franchise of Let Mommy Sleep, which provides baby nurses and other help to new parents. “A service business, especially one that helps new families grow closer and live happier, offers something that money can’t buy.”
Wicklow, a former Marine who recently got his MBA, had considered a Domino’s Pizza franchise, but didn’t believe it would be fulfilling. He’s getting involved instead with Let Mommy Sleep, which is based in Bristow, Virginia, and has one franchise open so far in Philadelphia. Wicklow, who lives in Stanhope, New Jersey, plans his franchise to cover the northern part of the state and hopes for 10 employees in the first year.
But to be sure that a smaller franchise like Let Mommy Sleep would be a good deal for him, Wicklow had asked a mentor from SCORE, the organization that gives free advice to small business owners, to evaluate the franchise agreement papers first.
About 4,000 different franchises exist in the United States. Fast-food restaurants and hotel chains have the most outlets, along with a smattering of retailers and service providers like auto repair companies. Many of these businesses have thousands of locations — Subway has nearly 27,000 in the U.S., while The UPS Store has more than 4,500.
But 80 percent of the 1,200 franchise parent companies who belong to the International Franchise Association have fewer than 200 locations, and of that subset, 80 percent have fewer than 100, says Scott Lehr, a senior vice president of the trade group.
While the economy was more uncertain, parent companies, known as franchisors, had held off creating new franchises. Loans for people to buy franchise locations were also harder to come by. But Lehr says new franchises have been created as the economy recovers from recession.
“There are opportunities for people to get on board with these younger, smaller, less-established companies. And they’re going to get bigger,” he says.
Buying a franchise can be appealing for people who want to own a business because they don’t have to come up with an idea from scratch. Some of the hard parts are already taken care of — there’s a logo and marketing campaign, and if it’s a restaurant, there’s a menu and decor. In some franchises, the corporate parent provides food items or other inventory. But the franchise owner must bring in customers and make the business a success like any other company.
Charmaine Hunt, who used to work for a startup that sold medical devices and liked the job, didn’t want a well-known company with a long track record when she began her franchise search. She turned down opportunities like hair salons and massage spas that already had plenty of franchisees.
“I wanted to go away from that direction. I wanted something that’s brand-new and that has the ability to grow,” says Hunt, who lives in Nashville, Tennessee. She’s now about to become the second franchisee for Lifesquire, which provides personal assistants who run errands and take care of chores for clients.
Hunt wasn’t daunted by the fact that a Lifesquire franchise hadn’t yet been proved a long-term success; the first franchise, in San Diego, is a year old. Opening any business, even a well-established franchise, carries risks, Hunt says.
“I never thought about (Lifesquire) being any more difficult than opening a Subway,” she says.
Adam Scott looked at several relatively small companies before deciding on Clothes Mentor, which has nearly 140 shops in about two dozen states that sell women’s used clothing. Scott, who previously owned a franchise that shipped packages, was looking for a team atmosphere that he felt huge franchises with thousands of locations didn’t offer.
“I wanted a certain culture,” says Scott, who lives in Knoxville, Tennessee. “I could tell they really have an interest in the success of their franchisees.”
Scott asked other franchise owners about their experience with Clothes Mentor, something that’s recommended anyone do before buying a franchise. What he heard persuaded him that even though Clothes Mentor isn’t on the tip of consumers’ tongues, it was a good fit for him.
“I have to feel that I’m going to like who I’m in business with,” he says.
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Congresswoman Ilhan Omar has received death threats in the wake of right-wing media lies
by Free Press Editorial
Last month, Fox News host Jeanine Pirro suggested that Omar's hijab may well mean that she opposed the U.S. Constitution. A few days later, New York resident Patrick Carlineo allegedly phoned Omar’s office and threatened to “put a bullet in her f------ skull.”
Carlineo has been arrested. According to the criminal complaint, he told the FBI that "he was a patriot, that he loves the President, and that he hates radical Muslims in our government."
Please click here to support Rep. Omar’s outspoken courage.
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has made the connection between the outlandish media comments and the death threats, tweeting:
"Understand when Jeanine Pirro goes on Fox + rallies people to think hijabs are threatening, it leads to this. Folks who imply we’re ‘bad’ for politics, the party, the country, etc. have no idea the threats we deal w/ because of that kind of language. Talk policy, not personal.”
The man who phoned Congresswoman Omar’s office sounded scarily similar to some right-wing TV and radio hosts.
Support Ilhan Omar as well as RootsAction’s work for open non-violent debate of the issues.
It's worth recalling how all of this started. It did not involve opposition to the U.S. Constitution. It did not involve anti-Semitism. It started with Congresswoman Omar’s support for the human rights of Palestinians, and her criticizing the power of the Israel-right-or-wrong lobby. To understand the gist of the case against Omar, consider this statement that came from Rep. Juan Vargas, a Democrat: “Questioning support for the U.S.-Israel relationship is unacceptable.”
At RootsAction, we fundamentally disagree. Questioning support for the U.S.-Israel relationship is not only acceptable – from the standpoint of human rights, it is essential.
RootsAction has long opposed Israel’s policies toward Palestinian people, including the illegal occupation and ever-expanding settlements. We do not support the “U.S.-Israel relationship” that has provided many billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars to arming the Israeli military – routinely and often lethally violating human rights in the process.
Please click here to support Rep. Omar’s bravery.
Already,the USA’s leading Israel-right-or-wrong group, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), is gearing up to oust Ilhan Omar from Congress. TheNew York Times reported last month on AIPAC’s hopes to “punish Ms. Omar, a freshman Democrat from Minnesota, with a primary challenge in 2020.”
AIPAC has a long history of defeating the few members of Congress willing to speak out against Israel’s occupation policies. As more of them speak out, AIPAC is even more determined to silence Israel’s critics.
To support open debate about the “U.S.-Israel relationship,” please make a donation of whatever you can afford.
The New York Times recently quoted a former Democratic Congressman from Washington State, Brian Baird, who said: “It is so disingenuous of some of these members of Congress who are lining up to condemn these questioning voices as if they have no campaign finance interest in the outcome.” Baird added: “If one dares to criticize Israel or dares to criticize AIPAC, one gets branded anti-Semitic, and that’s a danger to a democratic republic.”
It’s crucial to push back against that danger by stepping up support for real and open debate on these issues. You can help Ilhan Omar and RootsAction to do that.
—Norman Solomon, Jeff Cohen, and the RootsAction Team
>> Slate: Ocasio-Cortez Links Fox News' Jeanine Pirro to Death Threat Against Ilhan Omar
>> Daily Beast: Pro-Trump Man Charged With Threatening to Kill Rep. Ilhan Omar
>> New York Times: “Ilhan Omar’s Criticism Raises Question: Is AIPAC Too Powerful?”
>> M.J. Rosenberg, The Nation: “This Is How AIPAC Really Works”
>> Philip Weiss, Mondoweiss: “'I am told I am anti-American if I am not pro-Israel' and that’s problematic -- Ilhan Omar stands strong against blizzard of attacks”
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Finding a thing to wear during World War II (review of Julie Summers)
‘Finding a thing to wear during World War II’, Honest History, 1 September 2015
Janet Wilson* reviews Fashion on the Ration: Style in the Second World War by Julie Summers
This book accompanied an exhibition at the Imperial War Museum in London; the exhibition closed on 31 August. It showed photography, posterns, newsreels, advertisements, magazines and letters, plus some of the garments made and sold during the rationing period. It was based on the collection of wartime utility clothing gathered by Frederic A. Sharf in Boston. The book is an engaging and rewarding read, packed with information and anecdotes drawn from diaries, letters and published sources, and containing photographs of garments from the exhibition.
By April 1940, there was in principle agreement in the British War Cabinet for the introduction of a scheme for standard clothing and footwear to minimise the consumption of fabric for civilian clothing. The entire wool clip from Australia and New Zealand, and most of South Africa’s, had been bought by the government for military use and for the export trade, leaving little over for civilian clothing. By October 1940, the need for parachutes meant that raw silk was no longer available for civilian use and the consequent limited supply of hosiery gave the women of Britain the first taste of austerity.
While the Blitz continued, secret plans were being made by the Board of Trade to estimate the clothing needs of the population in wartime; many women’s organisations were consulted and were in favour of rationing. Churchill was as opposed to clothes rationing as he had been to food rationing, not wanting to see the public in rags and tatters, but Summers relates how the decision to launch rationing coincided with the hunt for the Bismarck, when Churchill was otherwise preoccupied.
Summers approaches her topic chronologically and gives an excellent description of the fashion scene leading up to the war, including the involvement of top designers like Norman Hartnell and Hardy Amies with designs for paper patterns, and garments for the mass market which were designed to raise the profile of the utility scheme. Women’s magazines were also influential in setting the style.
When rationing was introduced from 1 June 1941 the aim was to cut clothing consumption to two-thirds of the pre-war level. Initially 60 coupons were allocated per adult per year: 7 for a dress or skirt; 14 for a winter coat; 3 for knickers, corsets or an apron. Anomalies abounded: eight coupons for men’s trousers, unless they were made of corduroy, in which case you needed just five, and hats were not rationed at all, along with furnishing fabric and blackout material. Although the scheme was applied universally it was much harder for the lower paid who tended to have fewer clothes to begin with, unlike the well-off, who had massive wardrobes that would last them the year.
The bureaucracy to administer the scheme was enormous and the description of goods complex: one coupon would buy a pair of men’s half hose (not woollen) or a pair of ankle socks not exceeding eight inches from point of heel to top of sock when not turned down. Special coupon arrangements were made for children during growth spurts, for school uniforms and for second-hand clothing.
With the fall of Singapore in February 1942 the number of coupons was reduced and further regulations relating to design were introduced to save even more cloth: the number of seams and pleats in women’s garments was limited, turnups on men’s trousers were outlawed (and debated in the House of Commons) and boys under 13 years of age could not wear long trousers.
Churchill’s contribution to fashion (Churchill Central/Churchill Archives/Broadwater Collection)
Summers presents impressive statistics showing the saving in cloth the utility look achieved from the end of 1941, as well as the labour saved by limiting the number of buttons on suits, shirts and dresses. She deals with women in uniform and there is a chapter devoted to underwear, and corsets in particular (‘Supporting Britain’s women’), in which she describes the ingenuity with which women faced the shortage of elastic and unpicked downed pilots’ parachutes to make knickers out of the silk. Another chapter describes how women managed with the shortage of cosmetics.
In the chapter dealing with ‘Make-do and mend’ (an objective much more achievable in an era when most women could sew – it was only the very rich or the poorest who couldn’t turn a collar or darn a sock) she quotes from the Board of Trade’s Make-Do and Mend booklet published to instruct women on how to make clothes last longer and how to unpick and remake, unravel and re-knit. The Women’s Institute published an article suggesting members could use a wire brush to collect hair from dogs, then spin the hair in the usual way; collies, sheepdogs and Pekinese were preferred, whereas poodle, Labrador and spaniel hair was problematic. The last chapter of the book describes the situation for demobbed servicemen and women and the way the British fashion industry gradually recovered, even though clothes shortages continued for some years after VE Day.
The author captures the atmosphere of early enthusiasm for doing one’s bit for the war effort. People managed relatively well until 1943-44 when shortages were even more acute and when even the women’s magazines stopped offering cheery advice but tried to persuade their readers not to despair. Perhaps the manufacture of a Clarks’ shoe with a hinged wooden sole was the last straw. The book is peppered with interesting stories of how people managed when soap and shampoo were unavailable, of the scheme devised by Barbara Cartland to establish a wedding-dress lending service, and some familiar ones like the hazards of painting legs and drawing a seam up the back when the only stocking options available were baggy lisle utility numbers.
In Australia, clothes rationing was not as neatly handled as in Britain, being preceded by a quota system to reduce weekly sales to 75 per cent of the previous year. The intention was to curb hoarding but the fear of shortages meant shops were subject to stampedes and shopping frenzies. In June 1942, rationing was introduced and, in common with Britain, designs were introduced to save fabric. John Dedman, the Minister for War Organisation of Industry, a dour Scot at the best of times, modelled the Victory suit for men, but little could enhance the appeal of this single-breasted suit with no waistcoat, no trouser turnups nor button on the sleeves.
‘WAAAF personnel’ ironing their civilian clothes, YWCA Leave Hut, Mildura, Vic., c. 1943 (Australian War Memorial VIC003oA)
In 1943, the Commonwealth Rationing Commission published its booklet New Clothes from Old, which gave detailed instructions and patterns for transforming old clothes into new outfits, including cutting the pieces carefully to avoid worn areas. The booklet included a message to the women of Australia from Prime Minister John Curtin urging them to patch and mend and suggesting that ‘the darning needle is a weapon of war’. The booklet also contained the slogan, ‘Give Tojo a blow, make, mend and sew’. This aspect of wartime social history is covered by Kate Darian-Smith in On the Home Front: Melbourne in Wartime 1939-1945 (Oxford, 1990) and in Michael McKernan’s All In: Australia during the Second World War (Nelson, 1983).
* Janet Wilson was formerly a researcher in the Politics and Public Administration Section of the Parliamentary Library, Canberra.
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Shorter working month in February brings lower claims volumes while longer term trends remain stable for RTA but reducing for EL/PL
The release by Claims Portal of the data for February allows an updated assessment of latest trends affecting lower value injury claims.
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New RTA claims in February
New RTA claims in February – time weighted
New RTA claims over the longer term
Comparison with annual portal and CRU data
New casualty claims in February
New casualty claims over the longer term
RTA claims – stage 3 usage and PSLA levels
Casualty claims – stage 3 usage and PSLA levels
Comparative use of stages 2 and 3
RTA claims settling at stage 2 in February
RTA claims settling at stage 2 over the longer term
February saw reduced claims intakes into most portals, though an important factor was the shorter working month. The reductions of 8.2% in RTA, 0.4% with PL and 1.3% for EL were all smaller than the reduction in working time of 9.1% in view of February being a short month.
Certain milestones were hit this month: this was the lowest ever intake into the RTA portal with the sole exception of February 2018; while all the casualty portals this month produced either the lowest intake since these portals opened or the lowest since their first year of operation.
Comparing the first two months of 2019 with averages for the year 2018 we see that the current monthly average for RTA claims is higher than last year; though all casualty portals start lower.
As to longer term trends assessed over 12 months of data, there remains definite stability in the number of new RTA claims; now seen over the last 11 months. On the other hand while the longer term picture for PL and EL claims was largely stable during 2018, as we begin 2019 the data opens with two months of decline. EL disease numbers continue their long term decline.
We are now 11 months into the 2018/19 accounting year and in terms of headline RTA new claims numbers, at present a small shortfall of 0.4% is anticipated when compared to the previous year's reduction of 12.0%. To achieve parity an intake of 60,803 is needed in March but current expectations is that that level will not be reached in which case 2018/19 will show a nominal reduction from last year.
Use of stage 3 to settle has decreased this month across the board. Except for the months of December in each year RTA stage 3 usage in February was at its lowest level for 3 years. While down on the month, PL and EL stage 3 numbers are raised in 2019 so far when compared to last year.
On quantum, RTA shows a general damages fall to £2,821, the lowest level since last September as we await news on the publication of the 15th edition which if the pattern of 2-year releases continues will be due this autumn.
RTA settled claims at stage 2 fell in February to the lowest level since the first year of the portal's operation with the exception of the last 2 Decembers, but the longer term data shows stable stage 2 settlement levels over the last 6 months.
The second month of 2019 shows 57,508 new RTA claims, a reduction of 8.2% over January's level of 62,640. It should be remembered that January's total was the highest since January 2018, with the sole exception of October 2018.
There is usually a reduction between January and February. In 2018 the reduction was 10.8%, in 2017 it was 5.6%, and while there was an increase in 2016 of 2.8% between the two months in question that year was a leap year.
Comparing to the number seen in other Februarys, February 2019 has marginally avoided being the lowest February intake since the RTA portal opened. It is just 0.3% above the level seen in February 2018. However, it is below February 2017's level by 6.4% and is 20.4% less than the intake in February 2016.
The average monthly new RTA claims number for 2019 after two months is now 60,074. This is 3.1% above 2018's monthly average of 58,244, but is 1.2% below the average for the first two months of last year which was 60,829.
In February there were 20 working days, a reduction of 9.1% from the 22 in January. This of course is a greater reduction than the decrease in the RTA claims intake between the two months. The height of the bar to the extreme right of the graph above is therefore marginally higher than the preceding month.
On this basis there were 2,875 new claims per working day in the month of February. With the exception of December 2018, affected as it was by the Christmas holidays, the period between October 2018 and February 2019 has shown an increase in the daily intake of new claims back towards the level seen at the start of 2018.
We continue to await the data for further months as 2019 progresses in order to see whether a daily average in excess of 3,000 claims per working day will be reached for the first time in two years.
When we move to looking at the new claims data on a 12 month cumulative basis in order to show longer term trends, there is now a lengthening of the picture of stability to cover the most recent 11 months which have elapsed since March 2018. That stability is demonstrated by the data throughout that period remaining between 694,500 and 701,000, which is a variation of 6,500 or 1%.
Over the month, the number in fact of claims registered on this longer term assessment measured over the preceding 12 months rose from 696,292 to 696,446, an increase of 0.02%. Over the last 11 months there have been five monthly increases set alongside six monthly decreases when looked at on this basis.
As would be anticipated from the stable position over the last 11 months, the rate of decline has substantially slowed when the last 12 months are compared to the preceding 12. Between February 2017 and February 2018 the decline was 11.4%, whereas over the last 12 months it was only 1.6%. If the data for March shows a comparative number to the preceding 11 months, then this reducing trend will continue even further.
At the end of February we are 11 months into the accounting year running until the end of March which is used by the DWP in their annual CRU claims data. Extrapolating from where we stand at the end of February, we are currently anticipating a month 12 total for 2018/19 of 695,938. At the end of January we were anticipating a total of 697,312 so February's lower number has reduced expectations.
The 2017/18 total reached 698,754. The current projection would see a reduction of 0.4% between the two years.
If 2018/19 is to reach the same level as 2017/18, then the RTA portal claims intake in March 2019 will need to reach 60,803. March 2018's level was 58,503, so around 2,000 lower than that. This year there is one working day fewer in the month of March than there was in 2018, so as things currently stand it would appear more likely that there will be a nominal reduction in the portal data as between 2018/19 and 2017/18, but nothing like the 12.0% fall seen between 2016/17 and 2017/18.
The current projected RTA portal total for 2018/19 at 695,938 is 7.1% higher than the CRU figure for 2017/18 of 650,019. We expect the CRU total for 2018/19 to emerge from the DWP during April 2019.
PL claims
In February there were 4,656 new PL claims, a small reduction of 0.4% from the 4,675 seen in January. This reduction is of course far less than the 9.1% loss of working time.
The position when February is compared to January is similar to that which we saw with RTA claims: in 2018 there was a reduction of 4.0% between the two months, in 2017 there was a similar reduction of 4.1% though in the 2016 leap year there was an increase of 10.1%.
February 2019 is in fact the lowest PL new claims intake since the casualty portal was opened. It is at a level 6.1% lower than February 2018, 5.1% below February 2017 and 19.3% less than in February 2016.
The average monthly PL claims intake after the first two months of 2019 stands at 4,666. This is 2.9% below the 2018 monthly average of 4,806, and is also 7.8% lower than the 2018 average after the same two months which was 5,060.
EL claims
There were 3,742 new EL claims in February, a reduction of 1.3% from January's level of 3,792, but again a much smaller reduction than the drop off in working time over the month.
With the exception of the first year of operation of the casualty portals, this is the lowest February total, in other words, it is the lowest since February 2014.
The position is mixed when we compare January to February in terms of new EL claims. In 2018 there was a reduction of 7.0%; in 2017 there was an increase of 2.7% whereas in the leap year of 2016 there was a larger increase of 7.1%.
When we compare February 2019 to previous Februarys we see a reduction of 5.0% from February 2018, a drop of 8.8% from February 2017 and a decrease of 13.3% from February 2016.
After the first two months of 2019 the average monthly intake stands at 3,767 new EL claims. This is 2.1% below 2018's average of 3,847 and is also 7.8% less than where the average stood after the first two months of 2018, which was 4,087.
EL disease claims
February saw 479 new EL disease claims, an increase over the month of 8.4% from January's level of 442. However, as with PL claims, this the lowest February intake since the casualty portal opened.
The position as between the months of January and February in previous years was a mixed one. In 2018 there was a reduction of 5.7%, in 2017 an increase of 1.4% but in the leap year of 2016 there was a larger increase of 11.0%.
There are sizeable reductions when the intake for February 2019 is compared to the three previous years. The drop offs were: 29.0% from 2018, 44.0% from 2017 and 60.8% from 2016.
After the first two months of calendar year 2019, the average EL disease monthly intake so far is 461. This is 10.8% below 2018's average of 517, and 33.7% below where the average for that year stood after two months which was 696.
When we look at longer term trends on the 12 month cumulative data, we see in February a monthly decrease of 0.5% as the number falls from 57,096 at the end of January to 56,795 now.
When we compare the current level to the number 12 months ago, we see a reduction of 3.9% from 59,084 where it then stood. Over the 12 months since there have been three monthly increases but these are dwarfed by the nine monthly decreases.
It was reasonable to say in 2018 that there was a position of relative stability on the longer term PL data. As 2019 opens we seem to be moving from there back to a position of further decline. The 2018 monthly average decrease was 0.2%, whereas after two months of 2019 it is now more than 3 times higher at 0.7%.
On the same cumulative basis, at the end of February the prior 12 month intake stood at 45,473, a reduction of 0.4% from where the figure had been at the end of the previous month; 45,669.
At the end of February 2018 the same level stood at 46,325, so since then we have moved 1.8% lower. Over the last 12 months, the position remains that there have been four monthly increases set alongside eight monthly decreases.
As with PL claims, we may be moving from a position of stability in 2018 when there was a nominal average monthly decrease of only 0.02%, to decline in 2019, as the year begins with an average monthly drop off of 0.7%, the same level as with PL.
Over the prior 12 months we saw at the end of February an EL disease intake of 5,718, which represents a reduction of 3.3% over the month, as at the end of January the level had stood at 5,914.
12 months ago, in February 2018, the level stood at 8,833, so that we have seen a reduction of 35.3% since that time. Every one of those 12 months have shown a monthly decrease, indeed, that reducing trend has been in existence for over three years with monthly reductions over every single month of that time.
The position throughout 2018 was an average monthly drop off of 2.7%. After two months 2019 begins with a higher rate of decline, currently a monthly average fall of 3.8%.
January had seen monthly increases in retention rates across all four portals. The position in February is that trend has continued upwards in the case of all three casualty portals, whilst we have seen a decrease in the RTA portal.
If we move to the 12 months cumulative data for longer term trends, the RTA rate remains unchanged at around 54%, EL and PL are also unchanged at 27% and 22% respectively, while EL disease can also be said to be unchanged at around 5%.
Both retention rate graphs continue to assume that cases proceeding to stage three remain capable of being designated as included within the portal process.
In February there were 5,324 RTA claims in which a court pack was prepared preliminary to use of stage 3, which is a decrease of 14.1% from January's level of 6,201. This is of course somewhat greater than the decrease in the working time of 9.1%.
The current level is the lowest monthly number proceeding to stage 3 for over three years, since January 2016, if all months of December over that period are excluded from the comparison.
The average monthly number proceeding to stage 3 for the year after two months of 2019 so far is 5,763. This is a decrease of 4.8% over the monthly average for 2018 of 6,052 and is a 6.3% drop from where the average stood after the first two months of 2018, which was 6,148.
PSLA levels
In the month of February the average general damages level was £2,821, this being a reduction of 0.7% from the £2,840 seen in January. This is the lowest RTA monthly quantum level since September 2018.
Whereas January's level was 2.1% higher than that, the current level is only 1.4% above where PSLA stood in November 2017, when the effects of the 14th edition of the Judicial College Guidelines are believed to have started to impact. We remain some significant difference away from the 4.8% average increase proposed in the 14th edition of the Guidelines.
In the case of PL, there were 66 court packs prepared in February, which is a 19.5% reduction from the 82 in January. However, January was a high base and indeed was the fourth highest month to date in that portal.
Over the first two months of 2019 the average monthly number of PL court packs is 74, which is 10.4% higher than the monthly average for 2018 of 67, and is 8.8% above the average for the same first two months of that year.
In the case of EL claims, there were 75 court packs prepared in February, which is a reduction of 19.4% from the 93 prepared in January, though again January was a significant month, the third highest to date.
The average number of EL court packs per month for 2019 to date is 84. This is 6.3% higher than the 79 seen across the calendar year 2018, and is 1.2% above the average of 83 for the first two months of that year.
With EL disease, no court packs were prepared in February, as compared to the 1 seen in January. October 2018 was previously the last month when zero court packs was the outcome.
The average number of EL disease court packs for 2019 to date is 0.5. This is a 75% reduction from the monthly average for 2018 of 2, and is a 90% reduction from the monthly average of 5 seen for the first two months of that year.
Over the month PL general damages fell 6.7% from £4,256 to £3,970; EL increased 2.6% from £4,196 to £4,303, and EL disease also increased, by 9.1% from £3,734 to £4,075.
If we compare back to November 2017 and the likely impact of the 14th edition of the Judicial College Guidelines, then while PL shows no increase, EL is currently 5.3% higher and EL disease 15.5% above that level.
The extent to which stage 3 is used to settle RTA claims continues to reduce marginally downward and is now at 29%. For almost two years now the RTA level has remained reasonably constant at around 30%: certainly there is no sign of the increasing trend observed up to that point.
Reasons for this are likely to be multifactorial, but will include a waiting list for stage 3 hearings, often claimant representatives' preferred means of concluding claims at stage 3. For example, Birkenhead County Court, a preferred venue for various claimant solicitors, reports a current waiting list for a stage 3 hearing of eight months.
Stage 3 usage in PL and EL claims is also shown as currently decreasing on the graph above, both currently sitting at around 11%. Again, there is no sign of a return to the increasing trend seen up until around two years ago, presumably for the same reasons as those applying to RTA claims.
In February, 12,917 RTA claims settled at stage 2, a decrease of 12.9% from the 14,831 which did so in January. February's number was the lowest for cases settling at stage 2 since the first year of the RTA portal's operation, with the exception only of both December 2017 and December 2018 when Christmas holidays intervened.
The number is a product not only of volumes currently entering the RTA portal, but progress within it including how the claims are disposed of.
If we look at RTA stage 2 settled claims data over a 12 month cumulative basis to see longer term trends, then a clear decreasing experience is seen between late 2012 and the autumn of 2018. Since then, over the last six months, we have seen a position of stability.
As indicated, the explanation for the settled claims data is various, but one factor is the number of claims entering the portal, and the stability seen with RTA claims on this criterion on a cumulative basis over the last 11 months will partly explain the trend now visible with settled RTA claims.
For more information please contact Simon Denyer, Strategic Legal Development Consultant Simon.Denyer@dwf.law
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Slayer - Repentless (2015)
This is the third album from 2015 I actually bought in 2015. So I can't throw around superlatives like "this is the year's best album" since I can't really tell you if it is or not. I've heard tell that Symphony X's Underworld album was pretty good, but I haven't heard it. The same with Disturbed's newest one. I know, I'm horrible with keeping up with the music world.
But I made a rather important promise to myself to pick up Slayer's newest album no matter what. After the passing of Jeff Hanneman, the departure of Dave Lombardo, and the switch to the label Nuclear Blast, I admit I was curious as to just what Slayer could bring around this time. Would Slayer still be Slayer?
Hindsight being what it is, I realize how stupid the question was to even ask. The choice to soldier on after Hanneman's passing was Slayer enough. Their choice frustrated me somewhat, but I suppose that is a typical fan's passion more so than a logical analyzes. Like AC/DC, Slayer have a formula for success that reminds me of Tom Landry's approach to coaching. The system of Slayer is perhaps bigger than the individuals involved in Slayer so Slayer, like AC/DC, will survive in some form. But will they thrive? AC/DC released an amazing comeback album, but could Slayer release a similarly great album in the midst of their chaos?
It's a miracle they put out an album at all considering the circumstances. And no, this isn't the next Reign in Blood or anything like that, but this album is a tremendous success. It's their best album since 1990's Seasons in the Abyss. Considering that I really enjoyed World Painted Blood (2009), have a newfound respect for Divine Intervention (1994), and enjoyed God Hates Us All (2001) to some extent I can't think of praise that could be more fitting for this album.
Repentless is modern Slayer, but it's modern Slayer with a classic thrash edge. Gary Holt brings something to this band. He didn't write any of the songs as far as I can tell, but there's some serious riffage here and Holt's solos are a breath of fresh air when paired with them. This album is fast, but the riffs have time to breathe. Only one of these songs were taken from Hanneman's vault (writing only, not playing) so it's obvious that Kerry King wrote all of the other songs. Normally, King's songs are hit or miss with me. King has certainly written some kickass recent songs like Cult and Hate Worldwide, but the best songs on the last two albums were undoubtedly penned by Hanneman and Araya. Certainly on Christ Illusion (2006) where he wrote all but three of the songs, King's writing was subpar. World Painted Blood had a few more Hanneman tunes so it's no surprised I enjoyed that one more.
But with Hanneman being gone that means Araya isn't in the songwriting circuit anymore and that Repentless rested solely on King's shoulders.
I think King did quite admirably, too. Some songs I could have sworn to have been penned by Hanneman, but not so. Tom Araya is also in top form. He can't wail like he used to, but his vocal delivery is the strongest it has been in a long time.
This album easily could have been a forgotten or even a maligned release. Slayer fans can be a cruel bunch sometimes. Downright dicks, even. Like a drunk Satanic frat house, they're the kind of fans you just don't want to piss off. But Repentless is a resounding success, silly title and all. It's not without some annoyances held over from other recent Slayer releases, but it's still insanely good.
I've listened to this album at least five or six times since it I bought it on its release date, September 11, 2015. It was released fourteen years to the day after God Hates Us All. That's also the same span between releases that featured Paul Bostaph on the kit. Fourteen years away, but Bostaph hasn't missed a beat in the studio with this band.
Atrocity Vendor, although it is a holdover from the last album's sessions, is a great addition to this album. It sounds so much better despite the lyrics being tamed somewhat. Repentless is a surging title cut about Hanneman himself. It's an angry tune with a fittingly disturbing music video to match. When the Stillness Comes provides a slow dark atmosphere that builds and builds, but it feels like a good song that was cut in half. Whatever the finale was building to isn't there. So, if there is a point off this album, it's because of that song. Piano Wire, the song written by Hanneman, is a solid song. Not great, but it fits the vibe of this album and I really wouldn't have known that was his song if I hadn't Googled.
This album is incredibly even in terms of how good the songs are. There aren't any all-time greats, but there's nothing average, either. Except for When the Stillness Comes which is average.
If I had to choose a favorite from this one it would be either Chasing Death or You Against You, both from the latter half of the album. Unlike Christ Illusion where I had to skip a few songs to make it to the penultimate song Cult (my favorite from that album), I didn't really consider any song on Repentless an obstacle that I had to endure just to get to my favorite tunes. Everything flowed pretty well.
I won't say this is good just because "It's fuckin' SLAYYYEEEERRRR!!!!!" like a lot of people say on the internet, but it is good because a group of people got together and worked on something under intense pressure and came out with an album that stayed true to everything that most fans consider to be "SLAYYYEEERRRR!!!"
Granted, if you choose not to listen to anything Slayer beyond 1990, I guess you won't be missing out on a ton. Those early albums are tough to top. Going back to AC/DC... In a certain mindset it might seem silly to listen to anything after Highway to Hell and Back in Black knowing nothing could ever top them. But I don't think that's the right mindset to have with either AC/DC or Slayer.
I don't think Slayer deserves to be shoved in a vault as something that might as well have quit after 1990. Anyone that says so is sorely missing out. Repentless isn't perfect, but it's a great representation of the human condition. Repentless is, cheesy as it may sound, a repentless release and it's tough to listen to this with anything else other than a sense of respect for those involved.
Slayer is back and all is right with the world. I don't know how much longer they can keep it up, but for now they are back and that is a good thing.
Posted by Jacob Long at 11:16 PM
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Gordon Parenting > About P.E.T.
PARENT EFFECTIVENESS TRAINING (P.E.T.)
Parent Effectiveness Training or P.E.T. is the world’s No. 1 parent education program.
Benefiting a million parents since 1962 across 53 countries, P.E.T. was developed by award winning psychologist and three-time Nobel Peace Prize Nominee, Dr. Thomas Gordon. P.E.T. offers proven, practical, logical communication skills and problem solving steps applicable to any demographic status of the parent and child. Current research validates the effectiveness of using the non-punitive, compassionate and respectful parenting model introduced by Dr. Gordon.
P.E.T. is a skills training and relationship-based course which sets the family to have democratic, collaborative relationships. The core skills taught in P.E.T. are Active Listening, I-Messages, Shifting Gears and No-Lose Conflict Resolution or Method III. The Behavior Window is the key to knowing which of these skills to use and for which specific situation.
For Parents, educators, councilors, social workers, and caregivers, and adults who deal with children.
P.E.T. is a complete model of effective parent-child relationships which works for all different kinds of families.
It works with children of all ages, from the very young through the rebellious adolescent years.
It works in parent-child relationships that have begun to deteriorate and it works to prevent problems before they occur, i.e., “training before trouble”.
It also works for single parents, stepparents and grandparents.
And it works in all cultures.
What will you learn?
All P.E.T. workshops are taught by certified instructors who are trained and certified by Gordon Training International and Gordon Parenting . You will learn to:
Listen to your children so that they feel genuinely understood and accepted.
Talk to your children honestly and non-blamefully when their behavior causes you a problem.
Resolve conflicts and problems in your family so that no one loses and problems stay solved.
Deal with value collisions.
Troubleshoot family problems and know which skills to use to solve them.
P.E.T. Workshop Session Outline
Session 1: Understanding Parent Effectiveness and Your Relationships
Session 2: Learning the Helping Skills
Session 3: Applying Active Listening
Session 4: Confronting Unacceptable Behavior
Session 5: Applying I-Messages
Session 6: Resolving Conflicts
Session 7: Applying Method III (No Lose Conflict Resolution)
Session 8: Resolving Values Collisions
How is P.E.T. delivered?
The P.E.T. course is a 24-hour program and the schedule depends on the individual P.E.T. Instructor and participants. It is made up of 8 parts lasting 3 hours each and may be delivered over 3-4 full days or 5 half days spread over several weekends or weekdays. Another popular alternative is to deliver one 3- hour session per week over 8 weeks. The training is ideally done in a group setting but individual classes may be arranged. Group size varies but usually between 10-15 participants.
P.E.T. is designed to involve you in an active way drawing on your own life experiences, circumstances, problems and perspectives. Activities include role-plays, group discussion, group sharing, reflection as well as instructor presentations.
This intensive workshop is taught only by instructors certified by Gordon Training International . Each class participant will receive a set of P.E.T. materials which includes the latest edition of the P.E.T. book, a P.E.T. Workbook, a Participant Certificate and a copy of Dr. Gordon’s Credo.
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What Parents Say about P.E.T.
William H. Gates Sr.
Father of Microsoft founder Bill gates
“His mother and I were involved in the Parent Effectiveness Training at our church and the thing they taught us which is so central and significant is that you should never demean you child.”
Dr. Louise Porter
Child Psychologist/Parenting Author
“I commend Parent Effectiveness Training (P.E.T) for empowering parents to improve their relationships with their children, so that they can be the loving parents they always wanted to be, so their children can flourish, and their warm connection to each other can endure through life.”
Mrs. Gym Miller
“I am an alumni. Must have done it when Ari was still tiny. I found the course incredibly useful. It has served me well for both our kids as well as in adult relationships. You should do it!”
“This was a big step forward: a really big step, you go up and up, you become more wise, more insightful, you can process better what you hear, you can react in a better way, it rockets you, it may have taken you five years to start thinking of all these things, because they all sound very logical, they are so appealing, so simple, so humane.”
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“P.E.T has completely changed my life. I was at the point where I was no longer getting much joy from being a mother. I was having constant struggles with my oldest son and then arguing about it with my husband. Thankfully, I came upon P.E.T. in the nick of time! He has gone from having arguments and tantrums and going to time out multiple times a day, to calmly discussing issues with us and giving us hugs and kisses! WOW! This is how I want to raise my kids! I will forever be grateful for the change P.E.T. has made in our lives.”
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“I took Dr. Gordon’s course years ago because I was having trouble with our teenage son. Not only did these skills help me rebuild that relationship, but they helped every relationship in my life. My mother, my friends and, most importantly, my marriage have all benefited greatly from my having the skills! And I never leave home without them.”
Dr. Thomas Gordon
Dr. Gordon was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997, 1998 and 1999; as well as the recipient of the American Psychological Foundation’s 1999 Gold Medal Award for Enduring Contribution to Psychology in the Public Interest. He was also the recipient of the 2000 Lifetime Achievement Award from the California Psychological Association.
A licensed clinical psychologist, Dr. Gordon (1918 – 2002) received his B.A. from DePauw University, his M.A. from Ohio State University, and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, where he served on the faculty for five years.
He was the author of nine books: Group-Centered Leadership, Parent Effectiveness Training (P.E.T.), Leader Effectiveness Training (L.E.T.), Teacher Effectiveness Training (T.E.T.), Parent Effectiveness Training in Action, Discipline That Works, Sales Effectiveness Training (co-authored with Carl Zaiss), Making The Patient Your Partner (co-authored with W. Sterling Edwards, M.D.) and Good Relationships: What Makes Them, What Breaks Them (co-authored with Noel Burch). His books have been published in 32 languages and over 6 million copies have been sold worldwide.
In addition, Dr. Gordon contributed over 50 published articles on organizational leadership, communications, counseling, discipline, parenting, conflict resolution and democratic decision-making.
The Parent Effectiveness Training (P.E.T.) program, which he introduced in 1962, is widely recognized as the first skill-based training program for parents. It spawned the widespread parent training movement in the U.S. and it has been taught to over a million parents in 53 countries around the world.
The P.E.T. book was updated and revised in 2000. Gordon Training International has revised and updated the P.E.T. program and workshop materials periodically, most recently in 2006.
Dr. Gordon was a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and a member of its Division of Peace Psychology. He was also a member of the National Peace Foundation, the Association of Humanistic Psychology, and a past President of the California Psychological Association. Dr. Gordon was the first recipient of the Career Achievement Award from the National Parenting Instructors Association. He was a consultant to the 1970 White House Conference on Children and an invited speaker to the White House Fellows.
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Kansas Dome The state legislature approved the dome in 1881 and construction began in 1885. The outer copper dome extends approximately 75 feet above the inner dome. There are 296 steps to the top of the dome. More >
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Kansas State Capitol, Topeka The Kansas State Capitol was voted one of the 8 Wonders of Kansas Architecture because our forefathers had the vision and boldness to have such a magnificent structure designed. More >
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The Kansas Legislature consists of a 125-member House of Representatives and a 40-member Senate. The Legislature convenes on the second Monday in January for an annual session and generally adjourns in early May. For more information about the Kansas Legislature go to About the Legislature.
The Legislature convened the 2016 Special Session on June 23, 2016, at 8:00 a.m. to respond to the Kansas Supreme Court’s most recent opinion in Gannon v. State, issued May 27, 2016. The 2016 Special Session was called pursuant to a proclamation issued by Governor Sam Brownback on June 8, 2016. The 2016 Special Session was adjourned sine die on June 24, 2016.
The 2016 Special Session information can be accessed by selecting the link under the Historical tab above.
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Big Democratic win on North Shore
Gaughran gains seat in Albany, flips Senate
Posted Friday, November 9, 2018 12:00 am
With his win in the 5th State Senate District, Democrat James Gaughran,center, played a major role in stripping Republicans of their Senate majority and handing control to the Democrats.
Sue Grieco/Herald
U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi, of Glen Cove, was handily re-elected.
Courtesy Greg Gulbransen
Assemblyman Michael Montesano, of Glen Head, held onto his seat.
Christina Daly/Herald
By Zach Gottehrer-Cohen
By electing Democrat James Gaughran, of Northport, to the State Senate’s 5th District seat, North Shore voters played a major role in stripping Republicans of their Senate majority and handing control to the Democrats for the first time in nearly a decade. By a margin of over 10 percentage points, Gaughran ousted 23-year Republican incumbent Carl Marcellino, of Syosset.
“I’m so honored to be here with the new Senate majority that’s going to finally break that gridlock in Albany,” Gaughran, 61, told his supporters at the crowded Democratic watch party at the Garden City Hotel on Tuesday night. The crowd cheered and chanted, “Jimmy! Jimmy!” which reverberated loudly through the ballroom. “And I’m so excited that I’m going to be a part of history in Albany, when we break that glass ceiling with our new Senate majority leader, Andrea Stewart-Cousins.”
Democratic U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi, 56, will return to Congress. A former Nassau County executive and mayor of Glen Cove, he won handily over Republican challenger Dan DeBono, a former U.S. Navy SEAL and first-time candidate.
“I’m genuinely honored to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives, and I’m feeling pretty good that we will be in the majority come Jan. 1,” Suozzi said. “The bottom line is that this country has been pulled apart. It’s important that we elect leaders that know how to govern, and get things done, and work together for a vision for the future of this country.” His remarks were met with resounding applause.
Surrounded by his wife, Helene, and their three children, Suozzi said that politics has become “too small and too petty,” and added that a government needs to be created “that lives up to the American promise.”
Democratic State Assemblyman Charles Lavine, 71, of Glen Cove, defeated Republican Andrew Monteleone by a large margin. A lawyer and retired public school educator, Lavine has represented the Assembly’s 13th District since 2004.
“I am extraordinarily grateful and humbled to have been re-elected, and I am so appreciative of everyone who voted and who worked so hard to protect our American democracy,” Lavine said in an emailed statement to the Herald Gazette. “I look forward to getting back to work and serving Nassau County residents for another term.”
GOP falls short in Senate
At the Republicans’ election-watching headquarters, Mirelli’s in Westbury, party officials scanned their smartphones as the results rolled in. There were audible groans as the networks announced that Democrats would take control of the House, some clapping as several tight governors’ races were decided in the GOP’s favor, and much hushed, somber chatter. One party elder said he knew the news was bad because Nassau County Republican Committee Chairman Joseph Cairo had yet to speak when half of the county’s precincts were reporting their vote totals.
When he finally took the stage, at 10 minutes to midnight, Cairo called the election “a challenging night for the State Senate.”
In the race for the seat in the Assembly’s 15th District, Republican incumbent Michael Montesano, who narrowly beat first-time Democratic challenger Allen Foley, said that even though his party was no longer the majority, he would remain focused on preserving Long Island’s recent successes. “Believe it or not,” Montesano said, “when you look at the whole state, we’re doing very well. The question is, how do we keep it that way, and make sure it’s not just a flash in the pan?”
Montesano called his party’s loss of the Senate a “dramatic” one that the public would need time to absorb. He recalled the last time Democrats controlled the Senate — soon after he was first elected eight years ago — and said, “The public realized we can’t have this. There are no checks and balances. You can’t have everybody from the same party.”
An energized electorate
The election took place amid increasingly high political tension at the local, state and national levels. In the run-up to Tuesday’s vote, Democrats, invigorated by their opposition to the Trump administration, foresaw a “blue wave,” a claim that Republicans characterized as wishful thinking.
In 2014, between 10 and 20 percent of the North Shore population cast ballots in the area’s various races. This time around, the turnout was about 35 percent.
Was it a “blue wave,” or simply an energized electorate across the board? In the two North Shore Assembly races, the Republican candidates received 3,000 and 5,000 more votes than in the previous midterm, while 11,000 to 13,000 more votes were cast for the Democratic candidates.
In this year’s race in the 5th Senate District, Marcellino saw an increase of 30,000 votes. Gaughran’s, on the other hand, was more than 47,000.
Alyssa Seidman contributed to this story.
Ferrie takes the next step
Wind farm, cable planned for South Shore
Brianna’s Law passes in Senate
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The CEMUS Project – Lessons for Oberlin?
Steven Volk, April 26, 2015
A colleague recently introduced me to CEMUS, the Center for Environment and Development Studies at Uppsala University in Sweden. CEMUS is a unique student-initiated and primarily student-run university center with the explicit ambition to contribute to a better world. Since the early 1990’s, it has offered interdisciplinary higher education and been a creative meeting place for students, researchers and teachers from Uppsala University and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. The three main principles that define it are Student-Led Education, Collaboration & Partnership and Transdisciplinary Research. Interestingly, at least for us at Oberlin, its founding was at least partially inspired by a lecture given by our own David Orr in Sweden some years earlier in which he set out “six myths about the foundations of modern education, and six new principles to replace them.”
CEMUS published a short book about its history, principles and goals in 2011. Transcending Boundaries: How CEMUS is Changing How we Teach, Meet and Learn is available as a free download. This “Article of the Week,” is a condensed version of the chapter: “What is Education For: The History of Cemus,” by Niclas Hällström, one of the center’s student founders. The Center is centrally focused (as its name would suggest) on questions of environment and “development” (which they discuss in a very specific manner), and responds in one way to David’s challenge that the task of rethinking education must be undertaken in the context of the urgency of human survival. Further, the CEMUS project offers a number of lessons for a college, our own, as well as higher education in general, which is deliberating over its larger curricular and educational goals and the ways that students can take ownership over their education.
(NOTE: I have emphasized those parts of the text I found particularly relevant to our own process. Also note that the references to “senior faculty” would, in our context, better be read as “faculty” or anyone with a teaching or mentoring function.)
“What is Education For: The History of Cemus,” by Niclas Hällström
It is the fall of 1988. Classes are starting for Biology majors at Uppsala University. Fifty freshmen, full of expectation and a little bit nervous, are seated in the “The Svedberg Hall”; in the old, worn premises of the Chemistry Department…Finally, I am here, where all the action is supposed to be; at the center of thinking and change—the university.
My images of the university were so vivid and clear: frenetic activity and enthusiasm; continuous debates and discussions; students with an unquenchable thirst for knowledge, who attend lectures beyond their fields of study according to interest rather than course plans and requirements; idealism and the power to bring about change coupled with knowledge and thoughtfulness; demonstrations, actions, and protests; the courage to challenge and change the status quo. The core of social change and the triumph of reason over the follies of the world.
Where did I get these images? I don’t know—but they were certainly very real. And thus the disappointment and frustration at the reality that confronted me was just as real. A sense of disillusionment. Was this it? Was I missing something? Where was the dedication to causes and the ability to bring about change? […] Here, every year, thousands of students appeared to flow through the system without ever having been compelled to place their education in a broader context; without having been forced to challenge themselves and their educational and career choices in relation the major issues of global survival… and the global injustices that troubled not only me, but also a growing part of the world.
An essay by David Orr, titled “What is Education For?”—originally a speech to the graduating class of 1990 at Arkansas College— crystallized our thoughts but also ignited a spark to act. It was the first of several formative and deeply inspiring factors on the road to what would become Cemus. “The truth is that many things on which your future health and prosperity depend are in dire jeopardy: climactic stability, the resilience and productivity of natural systems, the beauty of the natural world, and biological diversity,” Orr stated, and concluded, “It is worth noting that this is not the work of ignorant people. It is, rather, largely the result of work by people with BAs, BSs, LLBs, MBAs, and PhDs.” In other words, the university is indeed a big part of the problem.
Orr continued, “My point is simply that education is no guarantee of decency, prudence, or wisdom. More of the same kind of education will only compound the problems. This is not an argument for ignorance, but rather a statement that the worth of education must now be measured against the standards of decency and human survival—the issues now looming so large before us in the decade of the 1990s and beyond. It is not education that will save us, but education of a certain kind.”
[…] We must learn how to manage ourselves and our social systems. New knowledge does not automatically yield good values, and the amount of total knowledge hardly increases…An increased amount of disciplinary and reductionistic teaching and research will not provide the holistic and integrated understanding of the world that we need the most. Education should not primarily be a career tool. And finally, Western culture is not some kind of apex in world development, but is rather, in many ways, the opposite.
[…] The importance of these moments of “homecoming,” of making connections with people and thoughts that strengthen your own possibly unformulated but deep insights, but which also challenge you and stretches your imagination, should not be underestimated. In fact, that is probably a foundational element of Cemus’ origination as well as an important dimension of its pedagogical approach. The merging of dammed-up frustration and moments of constructive inspiration can yield unexpected results!
Johannes Buno, Universal History (1672) in Daniel Rosenberg and Anthony Grafton, Cartographies of Time
Yet another important point of departure: the Stanford Biologist Paul Ehrlich visits Uppsala University in 1989… His lecture is dazzling [and] the conclusion is challenging: which university will be first in the world to require an introductory, cross-disciplinary semester in matters of global survival for all students? And which university will be the first to allow—and to expect—everyone, regardless of discipline, to set aside at least 10% of their time to get involved in exactly these kinds of issues?
Imagine a lecture series, a course, an introductory semester with only lectures like this; lectures which affect you and which force you to contemplate, to converse and discuss matters over an entire week until, in the following week, an even more challenging lecturer arrives. The seed for the course Humanity and Nature was planted—and the vision of another, different university became a little bit more concrete.
A third departure point: An entire wall of empty tea cans inside the old stone house in the Observatory Garden. Facing us, the Astronomy Professor that so many people have told us we simply had to meet. Our idea: an interdisciplinary course aimed at all students, which takes on the great issues of global survival. A model for a required introductory course inspired by Ehrlich’s challenge. Over the course of one semester, we have been experimenting and thinking about a course design. […] We are encouraged [by Prof. Bengt Gustafsson] to go beyond what we thought was possible…Perhaps the foundation for a fairly uncommon model of respectful and straight-forward collaboration between young students and senior faculty is laid there in the stone house among the tea cans.
From Idea to Completed Course
We are now four students who are wandering through the hallways of the university in search of support for the course proposal. One person leads to another, and we discover that there are in fact many people who share an interest in global issues, people with similar outlooks and a desire to bring about change…The common meeting place and the critical mass seem to be lacking—and the disciplines reign, mirroring the situation that we as students are experiencing…
[…]We are impressed by the professors’ command of their own disciplines, but soon realize that nobody has the whole picture; that they, just as we, are truly grappling with the complexity of the issues. We realize that our common sense and curiosity go a long way, and that we are part of a common project of attempting to define and understand the integrated areas of environment and development, or “sustainable development.” One of the significant aspects of Cemus is exactly this breaking down of exaggerated respect for authority while at the same time making active use of the senior teachers and researchers in order to construct one’s own understanding of the whole—one’s world-view—and to do so on one’s own terms.
No.11 King St, W Toronto, Canada. Brian Carson. CC-Flickr
[…]We…finish polishing the course idea and send in the proposal to the University Board. We place a lot of emphasis on the need for an interdisciplinary approach and on the importance of the students’ own active participation and their communication and interaction across disciplines, but we remain silent on the topic of who is to run the course. A few months later, we receive notice that the Vice-Chancellor…has decided that the course will be [developed and carried out by the students] in collaboration with an interdisciplinary group of senior faculty [and] placed as an unusual, freestanding entity… floating above all departments… Developing the course was a way of reflecting on what gives real knowledge and deepened insight—and what triggers the joy of discovery and exploration.
The course development became a relieving experience and great fun—we were fully absorbed in the work and nothing seemed to limit us. We pondered and experimented with new interdisciplinary constellations; with modes of examination in which the writing of group papers across disciplines also became a continuous dialog with the lecturer; we made sure we always ate dinner with the lecturer before the evening’s lecture in order both to build relationships and to provide a context for the lecturer; and we developed detailed, ongoing course evaluations as an explicit, pedagogical tool.
In the full-time follow-up course, Humanity and Nature II we had the opportunity to experiment even further because we were no longer limited by the large lecture hall format, and the course was offered exclusively to advanced students with at least two years of study
[…]The most highly qualified and advanced education is not found in the course catalogue—it consists, rather, in having the opportunity to take own responsibility for development, coordination and teaching of a real course for other students.
We also realize at an early stage that the “meeting place” is at least as important as relevant courses. A physical center is needed not only to provide a formal base for interdisciplinary courses, but also to function as a magnet for all those individuals who, like ourselves, are in search of community, inspiration and a platform for taking action together with others. And such a center has to be genuinely interdisciplinary—it has to float above all the individual disciplines and departments so that it would not over time become distorted and shaped by the narrow conditions and interests of one particular discipline. The initial course proposal hence outlined the formation of a real, interdisciplinary center as a desired and logical next step.
Cemus is Founded
[…] In 1996, Cemus—the Center for Environment and Development Studies—is finally born…Throughout the years a fundamental principle of Cemus there has been the ambition to provide a meeting place for extracurricular activities and to actively encourage students to act on their knowledge as an integrated part of the teaching process. It should be easy to move from theoretical insights to real engagement on the basis of one’s new insights, points of view, and values—whatever they may be. In a deeper sense, Cemus should probably be regarded as a democratic project, rooted in the academic ideals of knowledge-seeking and critical thinking. It urges students to take responsibility by acting on their knowledge and conviction—through the support of other students, a building and infrastructure, and an attractive social environment…
Key Characteristics of Cemus
The Subject Area: Environment and Development
One basic principle from the very beginning was that issues of global survival should be approached in an integrated manner, where both environment and development are fundamental components; but more importantly, that the study of the very interface between these areas is the most central of all. “Environment and development” is here viewed as “one” integrated concept and not as two separate areas that are studied in parallel. Many institutions that offer courses in sustainable development have a disciplinary basis in either the area of environment or the area of development studies, and it can then easily happen that the courses get a bias towards one of these areas. The strength of Cemus is that the focus—and the curiosity—is almost always directed towards the interface and integration of environment and development.
Helen Keller and the Martha Graham Company. Photo: Samuel P. Hayes Research Library, Perkins School for the Blind (1954)
The Interdisciplinary Approach
The interdisciplinary approach of Cemus has been a self-evident point of departure since the very beginning… The concept, however, is by no means unambiguous and can be used in many different ways. At the core of Cemus, I believe, there has been an urge to get to a more profound “transdisciplinary” quality, beyond the more common “multi-disciplinary” dimension, even though this is certainly quite a challenge. For some people, moreover, the ideal of a “strong” as opposed to a “weak” interdisciplinary approach is important—that is, an attempt to fundamentally re-evaluate and break new epistemological ground in relation to one’s view of knowledge and one’s understanding of the search for knowledge (and its limitations).
Critical Thinking and Disrespectfulness
“Critical thinking” is probably one of the most commonly used concepts within education and pedagogy and often used in very generalized ways that in the end devalues the concept. Yet, it is without doubt a foundational element of Cemus. This deliberate emphasis on critical thinking takes place at many different levels, with some approaches that seem to be particularly distinctive of Cemus’ courses. First, there is the often explicit ambition to explore alternative and more radical, unconventional ideas and points of view, that is, the “counterpoint” in addition to the “mainstream.” Secondly, the courses challenge students to critically question their own deep assumptions, world-views, and values, something that can make some of Cemus’ courses quite overwhelming and have a profound effect on students. Thirdly, students are encouraged to maintain a critical stance toward the pedagogical process itself and to continually provide feedback and actively influence the courses while they run (and, for some, contribute further by taking responsibility for the course as course coordinators the following year). Critical thinking is also closely connected to the culture of “disrespectfulness” (in a positive sense) for authorities, senior faculty, and researchers that permeates Cemus.
It is the student that stands at the center of the process of attaining knowledge; the lecturers pass by, and the student takes advantage of them in the pursuit to synthesize his or her own knowledge—in contrast to an educational situation where the lecturer’s agenda and the query, “What will appear on the exam?” stand in focus of the learning process.
The Focus on Active Involvement
The urge to become actively involved and engaged in the struggle for social change and a sustainable and more equitable world was the departure point for Cemus from the very beginning and is likely just as important today. A basic conviction has been the belief that if people are exposed to and inspired to think more about issues of global survival, then one will somehow change, draw conclusions, and likely also want to actively do something about those problems.
This conviction captures the idea of knowledge as an eye-opener and alarm clock. Whatever political conclusions one may draw from the knowledge one gains, and whatever form of involvement one ends up pursuing, is however something Cemus as an institution should not have any opinions about. It is of course also acceptable to choose not to act, as long as one does so with open eyes and truly stands behind one’s decision. The mission of Cemus is to facilitate and encourage as much knowledge gain, as much critical thinking, and as much reflection as possible—and to make it easier for students to act on these insights if such an urge arise.
The Pedagogical Methods
To improve teaching and pedagogical practices has, as already mentioned, been a central concern of Cemus since the very beginning. However, one may ask whether there is a distinct pedagogical approach at Cemus?… I think one can still discern several features that have distinguished teaching at Cemus through the years. One of them is the focus on norms, values, and students’ own assumptions and sense of responsibility; another is the ambition to supplement reading and theoretical discussions with practical exercises; a third is to whenever possible link theory to concrete, location-bound examples and go on field trips; a fourth is to place great emphasis on social events (scheduled coffee meetings and parties, overnight excursions and field trips); a fifth is the ambition to actively provide a sense of continuity and coherence in courses through, for example, the course coordinators’ presence at every lecture, seminar and discussion; and a sixth is provide opportunities for gaining and improving a number of skills of general importance (different kinds of writing skills, methods for problem structuring, analysis of arguments and debating techniques, communication skills, public speaking skills, and project management).
Duality at No. 664 Bay St, Brian Carson , CC-Flickr
Students at the core—the Relation between Senior Faculty and Students
Without students as the driving force, Cemus would not be what it is. Student leadership is simply a fundamental element that must be preserved and cultivated in the best way possible. At the same time, it is important to recognize that the basic principle has always been the trustful, straightforward interaction between students and senior faculty; not the idea that students should have maximum freedom to do whatever they want. Cemus’ approach clearly demands a good dialogue between students and faculty…and who possess the ability to let go, to not micro-manage and to dare let students prove themselves and learn from their experiences. This goes for not only teachers and researchers, but also for the administrative staff of the university.
The Road Ahead and the Bigger Picture
[…] What about the university as a whole? A key incentive from the beginning was to change the entire university and its educational process in the larger sense…Can the experiences gained at Cemus somehow be converted so as to expand the debate—and moreover, can these experiences be shared and spread to universities in other parts of the world? What would be the next natural step to take? What are the great challenges of today’s students?
As the educator Myles Horton says in his inspiring autobiography, “Neutrality is just another word for accepting the status quo as universal law. Either you choose to go along with the way things are or else you reject the status quo.” How should the university be changed? What is education for? How will Cemus continue to contribute to a sustainable and just society?
Niclas Hällström actively contributed to the creation and development of Cemus and has, over the years, collaborated as course coordinator, lecturer, Board member, and work group member. After several years of work on environment and development issues, he is now in the process of building a new organization—the What Next Forum.
CEMUS was founded within the context of a large Swedish university, but its example contains much that we at liberal arts colleges should be thinking about. How do we build transdiscipinary approaches to the greatest challenges of our time, the “wicked problems” that we face? How do we insure that it is the student who stands at the center of the process of attaining knowledge? How do we welcome students to take leadership in their own learning? How do we build “trustful and straightforward” relations between students, faculty, and staff? Can we build a lecture series which “affects you and forces you to contemplate, to converse and discuss matters over an entire week until, in the following week, an even more challenging lecturer arrives?” The answers are in our hands.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged CEMUS, democracy, Environment, interdisciplinarity, Students, sustainability, Sweden, transdisciplinarity on April 26, 2015 by ssvolk.
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Distribution of Short Neuropeptide F-like Immunohistochemical Reactivity in the Brain and Midgut of the Terrestrial Isopod, Armadillidium vulgare (Latreille)
Volume 3, Issue 6-1, November 2015, Pages: 76-82
Received: Sep. 30, 2015; Accepted: Oct. 7, 2015; Published: Nov. 29, 2015
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Maged M. A. Fouda, Zoology Dept., Faculty of Science, Al-Azhar University, Assuit branch, Assuit, Egypt
Makio Takeda, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Kobe University, 1-1 Rokkodai-cho, Nada-ku, Kobe, Japan
Immunohistochemical reactivity against short neuropeptide F (sNPF-ir) was detected in both the brain–subesophageal ganglion (Br-SOG) and midgut epithelial cells of the isopod, Armadillidium vulgare. More than 194 cell bodies showed immunohistochemical reactivity in the brain and SOG. A wide distribution of sNPF-ir occured in the optic lobe (OL; 82 cells), accessory lobe (AL; 56 cells), central body (CB), tritocerebrum (Tr; 18 cells), circumesophageal connective (COMI; 7 cells), and subesophageal mass (SOG; 25 cells), while no sNPF-ir was observed in the deutocerebrum (DC) and pseudofrontal organ (PFO). sNPF-ir was also detected in both paraneuronal cells and stomatogastric nerve elements in the midgut muscle layer. Immunostaining of cells in the Br-SOG and midgut was blocked by preabsorption test. No difference was found in number or distribution of sNPF-ir between males and females. sNPF is both neuropeptide and midgut factors. This wide distribution suggests that sNPF may not only coordinate feeding and digestion in A. vulgare but also support multiple functions.
Short Neuropeptide F, Brain, Midgut, Armadillidium vulgare, Isopoda
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Maged M. A. Fouda, Makio Takeda, Distribution of Short Neuropeptide F-like Immunohistochemical Reactivity in the Brain and Midgut of the Terrestrial Isopod, Armadillidium vulgare (Latreille), American Journal of Life Sciences. Special Issue:New Horizons in Basic and Applied Zoological Research. Vol. 3, No. 6-1, 2015, pp. 76-82. doi: 10.11648/j.ajls.s.2015030601.21
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Future classics – Jonas Olsson, piano
Balderin sali
Sat 2.4.2016
Opening the spring season of the Key Discoveries series, the remarkable pianist Jonas Olsson makes his first appearance in Finland, presenting a program consisting mostly of works written since the 2000's. All works except Ferneyhough and Simon are heard for the first time in Finland, and the study by Johan Svensson receives its world premiere. Composer Pasi Lyytikäinen hosts the event, and will also make a live composition during the concert, to be premiered at the end of the recital.
Brian Ferneyhough (b 1943):
Lemma-Icon-Epigram (1981)
Johan Svensson (b 1983):
Study for piano #1 (2015), world premiere
Pedro Alvarez (b 1980):
VER (2013)
Brice Pauset (b 1965):
Cinq Canons (1990-2002)
Vassos Nicolaou (b 1971):
Etude 5: Mirrors/Interventions (2008)
Etude 6: Animadóttir (2013)
Etude 7: Entrap (2013)
Etude 8: point de jonction (2013)
Art-Oliver Simon (b 1966):
Klavierstück VI (2005)
Programs are sold for 10 euros.
The Swedish pianist Jonas Olsson is spending most of his time somewhere between Germany and Sweden, much in demand as a chamber musician, accompanist and sight-reading teacher However, he is most passionate about contemporary music, with a special interest in complexity and new playing techniques.
Jonas studied with Hans Pålsson in Gothenburg, making his concerto début with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra in 2007. He continued his studies in the International Ensemble Modern Academy in Frankfurt, and spent two years specialising in contemporary solo piano music with Pierre-Laurent Aimard in Cologne.
Jonas has performed as a soloist at venues such as the Aldeburgh Festival, Carnegie Hall, Klang Festival Copenhagen, Klavierfestival Ruhr, 2D2N Festival Odessa and, repeatedly, the Lucerne Festival. Apart from tirelessly championing a younger generation of composers, he has also closely collaborated with a large number of more established composers, most prominently among them Pierre Boulez and Helmut Lachenmann.
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A randomised controlled trial to investigate if Focused Expressive Writing reduces symptoms in patients with epilepsy and Non-Epileptic Attack Disorder
Professor Markus Reuber (Medicine), Professor Brendan Stone (English), and Dr Ian Brown (Psychology)
This project is one of three in a University-funded network studying the impact of shame and stigma in a variety of diseases. All projects are interdisciplinary collaborative projects coordinated by Medical Humanities Sheffield. The projects will run in a network with regular meetings, providing cross-discipline insights into clinically relevant problems, with a translational humanities perspective.
This is a multidisciplinary project, which will forge a closer collaboration between the departments of Neurology, English and Psychology. The project will involve an intervention called Focused Emotional Writing (FEW). FEW about traumatic, stressful or emotional events has previously been found to result in improvements in both physical and psychological health, in healthy people and in patients with mental and physical health disorders. In FEW interventions, participants may be asked to write about distressing events for 15–20 minutes on 3–5 occasions. Several studies have shown that participants who have engaged in this sort of task have better physical and psychological outcomes than those who have written about neutral topics.
In this project, we will compare the effects of FEW and writing about neutral topics in two groups of patients in which this intervention has not been used in the past: patients with epilepsy and patients with non-epileptic attack disorder (NEAD). Whereas epileptic seizures result from abnormal electrical activity in the brain, non-epileptic attacks (NEAs) are caused by an abnormal response to distress. The use of FEW in these patient groups is of particular interest because many patients with epilepsy feel that there seizures are triggered by stress and most NEAs are interpreted as an abnormal response to distress (often occurring in patients with a history of significant traumatisation).
To assess the effects of FEW, patients in both groups will be randomised to complete an FEW task or to write about emotionally neutral topics. We will measure health-related quality of life (HRQoL), anxiety, depression, seizure frequency / severity and healthcare usage before the intervention and three and six months afterwards. We will look for differences in outcomes between the FEW and neutral writing groups as well as for differences between patients with epilepsy and NEAD.
Uniquely, we intend to combine this randomised intervention with a detailed language analysis of the material participants in the FEW groups have written. By carrying out a very careful examination of the texts provided by the study participants we intend to learn more about the psychological problems of patients with seizures and hope to develop ideas for more effective treatments for the distress which is often associated with seizure disorders.
Candidates must have a relevant first or upper second class honors degree or significant research experience.
Interested candidates should in the first instance contact Professor Markus Reuber.
Please send your cover letter, CV, references and transcripts to Ms Jodie Burnham (j.a.burnham@sheffield.ac.uk).
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VFW Washington Weekly – August 31, 2012
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1. VFW Applauds White House Effort to Combat Suicide
2. VFW Active at Republican Convention
3. VA Increases Vets Retraining Assistance Program
4. Combating Veterans’ Homelessness
5. VFW Hears from Marine Corps Commandant
6. Army and NFL Discuss TBI
7. Five MIAs Return Home
1. VFW Applauds White House Effort to Combat Suicide: Today, the President signed an executive order designed to curb military and veteran suicide and improve the delivery of mental health resources to our nation’s heroes. The executive order, “Improving Access to Mental Health Services for Veterans, Service Members and Military Families,” which President Obama is scheduled to announce during a visit to Fort Bliss in Texas, includes nearly a dozen specific initiatives designed to improve mental health resources and intervention tools. National Commander John E. Hamilton, noted the VFW support for the president’s vision to prevent military suicides and improve mental health care delivery, but also expressed concerns about potential funding shortfalls to accomplish the president’s goals. Click here for the VFW’s Press release: http://www.vfw.org/News-and-Events/Articles/2012-Articles/VFW-Applauds-White-House-Efforts-to-Stop-Military-Suicide/
2. VFW Active at Republican Convention: VFW Representatives attending the Republican National Convention (RNC) listened to key note speakers and spoke with delegates on critical issues like veterans mental and behavioral health, accurate claims processing and helping service members secure educational, employment and entrepreneurship opportunities. The VFW will also be represented at next week’s Democratic National Convention in Charlotte to ensure the voice of veterans, service members and their families remains a key priority during Campaign 2012. Leading both delegations will be VFW Legislative Director Ray Kelley. Stay informed throughout by reading blog postings at: www.vfwonthehill.org/
3. VA Increases Vets Retraining Assistance Program: This week, VA announced that have filled 36,000 of the 45,000 job training openings available under the Veterans Retraining Assistance Program (VRAP) passed as a part of the VOW to Heroes Act. An additional 55,000 openings will be available October 1, 2012. VRAP provides up to $1,473 a month in GI Bill benefits for those taking full-time courses to learn the skills necessary to land a job. VFW was instrumental in getting the provision passed as a part of the comprehensive jobs bill and encourages veterans eligible to apply online. Click here for more information: http://www.benefits.va.gov/VOW/
4. Combating Veterans’ Homelessness: Veterans’ homelessness is a national problem that is best solved at the local level. As such, the VA recently launched a new online ordering portal for communities and national partners to order free informational material and promotional items ranging from brochures and posters to wallet cards, drawstring bags and hygiene kits, among other items. Share the portal link with your VFW members and Posts and with others in your community to help spread the word. For more information or to place an order, go to http://www.va.gov/homeless/materials_center.asp.
5. VFW Hears from Marine Corps Commandant: This week, VFW attended a Press Club event where Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James Amos spoke on a number of issues important to the Corps. Leading the list was the continuing success of combat operations in Afghanistan and the transfer of responsibilities over to Afghan national security forces. Following his remarks, Amos fielded questions from the audience on a variety of military quality-of-life and force readiness issues ranging from fiscal responsibility and budget constraints on the Marines Corps, to women serving in combat, suicide, and sexual assault. When asked about potential across-the-board cuts to the Defense budget, Amos said he believed the Marine Corps would be hit disproportionately hard, considering the size of the force and the value it delivers to the U.S. military. Amos also said that the greatest challenge for the Corps moving forward would be ensuring the force remains balanced through a period of fiscal austerity. To learn more about Amos’ remarks and to view C-SPAN’s full coverage of the event, click here: http://www.vfwonthehill.org/2012/08/vfw-hears-from-marine-commandant.html?m=1
6. Army and NFL Discuss TBI: Earlier this week, Army representatives hosted NFL leaders at West Point to discuss how they can affect positive change surrounding Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI) and concussions. The military, alongside the NFL have continued conversations regarding the Soldier-Athlete commitment to education and awareness of these serious injuries. To watch the discussion, click here: http://www.dvidshub.net/webcast/2578#.UD5iiqCoz1l.
7. Five MIAs Return Home: The Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office recently announced the identification of remains belonging to one airmen and four soldiers who had been missing in action since World War II, Korea and Vietnam. Returned home are:
* Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Harry W. Eck, of Minot Ward, N.D. On Sept. 13, 1944, Eck and eight other crewmembers were aboard a B-17G Flying Fortress that crashed near Neustaedt-on-the-Werra, Germany. Only one of the nine crewmen is known to have successfully parachuted out of the aircraft before in crashed.
* Army Cpl. Kenneth R. Block, 22, of Ann Arbor, Mich. In late November 1950, Block and elements of the 31st Regimental Combat Team, known as “Task Force Faith,” were advancing along the eastern banks of the Chosin Reservoir in North Korea when they came under attack. On Dec. 3, Block and many other Americans would be listed as missing in action as a result of the heavy fighting.
* Army Sgt. 1st Class William T. Brown, 24, of La Habra, Calif.; Sgt. 1st Class Donald M. Shue, 20, of Kannapolis, N.C.; and Sgt. 1st Class Gunther H. Wald, 25, of Palisades Park, N.J. On Nov. 3, 1969, the men and six Vietnamese soldiers were part of a Special Forces reconnaissance patrol that was ambushed while operating in Quang Tri Province near the Vietnam-Laos border.
Read more about their recovery and identification at http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo/news/news_releases/.
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Pianist Nancy Garniez Presents The Acoustical Kaleidoscope
Saturday, March 13, 2010 8:38 PM
Pianist Nancy Garniez
THE ACOUSTICAL KALEIDOSCOPE
Imagining the Piano as a Place in Play
Three Informal Sunday Afternoons of Music and Talk
March 21, April 25, May 16 at 4 p.m.
The TENRI Institute 43a W. 13th St. in Manhattan
Playing representative works of three centuries, pianist and innovative musical thinker Nancy Garniez invites you to imagine the piano in the hands of the mostly young people who “made up” up the instrument as it evolved – much the way young people play their way into mastery of modern-day technology.
She proposes an instrument free of its association with right notes and wrong notes, restoring the novelty it never lost during the lifetimes of Haydn, Mozart, Chopin, and of Bartok and other 20th century composers as they adjusted to equal temperament.
In this spirit she will introduce improvisatory games that anyone can play at the piano to experience anew its marvelous acoustics—sounds which defy electronic synthesis.
Nancy Garniez has been performing solo and chamber recitals here and abroad for many years. She has taught piano and chamber music at Mannes College since 1972. She is the author of What Might It Mean: An Uncommon Glossary of Musical Terms and Concepts for the Stuck, Bored and Curious (1999) and of numerous articles on the musical life. She is the creator of Tonal Refraction®, a method that objectifies subjective aspects of tone perception.
Tickets, available at the door, are $20 ($55 for the series); $10 for students and seniors; $5 for children under 12.
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I think I prefer Joy Division.
New York Post Online Edition: gossip:
"a cousin of Kerry's, Michael Paine, was a close friend of Oswald who fre quently had the assassin as a house guest. Paine even stored the rifle Oswald used to shoot Kennedy at his house."
heads or tails folks...either way we're shortchanged...
remember Neil Bush and Scott Hinckley's connection?
So, when Nader says there's no difference between Bush and Kerry in some ways he's right...
they are both reptiles from the same genealogical line...
they are both connected to the intelligence community...
they are just warring factions of elites lording over us...
Kerry understands we'll make better drones if we're taken care of just a little...that's the difference...
it's all "thesis-antithesis-synthesis"...
Bush is making extreme moves enacting "the agenda". He knows it will push us towards Kerry and the Dems that will then make other extreme moves towards enacting "the agenda"....
Bush stirs up the middle east, Kerry finishes the job.
Bush brings down our standard of living,
Kerry brings us back into the world as a weaker actor.
All moving towards...wait for it...
THE NEW WORLD ORDER!
Off the Kuff: "Thirty years ago this Halloween, a man living in the Houston suburb of Deer Park murdered his 8-year-old son by spiking a package of Pixy Stix with cyanide. Halloween has never been the same since."
ahhh...
my home town...
I remember it well, or well, I don't really...
I guess I was 4 at the time...
but I do remember going to the church or the school for some kind of fall festival and not trick or treating as a kid...
sure do like pixy sticks though...
Salon.com Arts & Entertainment | The Fix
Salon.com Arts & Entertainment | The Fix:
"Weird Halloween factoid (insert your own 'bloodsucking politician' joke here): George W. Bush and John Kerry are ninth cousins twice removed and can each trace their lineage back to Vlad II Dracul, the 15th century Transylvanian warlord who inspired Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' (Ancestry.com, via Rush and Molloy) . "
fucking reptiles.
we're catching up to them.
think I'll go have a heart attack now.
John Peel dies
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3955289.stm
Legendary radio DJ John Peel dies
Veteran BBC broadcaster John Peel has died at the age of 65, while on holiday in Peru.
Peel, whose radio career spanned 40 years, was on a working holiday in the city of Cuzco with his wife Sheila when he suffered a heart attack.
He was BBC Radio 1's longest-serving DJ and in recent years had also presented Home Truths on Radio 4.
Radio 1 controller Andy Parfitt said Peel's contribution to modern music and culture was "immeasurable".
'Hugely missed'
He added: "John Peel was a broadcasting legend. I am deeply saddened by his death as are all who work at Radio 1. "John's influence has towered over the development of popular music for nearly four decades.
"Hopeful bands all over the world sent their demo tapes to John knowing that he really cared.
"His commitment and passion for new music only grew stronger over the years. In fact, when I last saw him he was engaged in a lively debate with his fellow DJs over the state of new music today
"He will be hugely missed."
Mr Parfitt told Radio 1's Newsbeat that Peel had been on a holiday of a lifetime when he died.
'Irreplaceable'
He added: "He had gone on holiday with Sheila to a place where he had always wanted to go."
BBC director general Mark Thompson said: "We are all very shocked and saddened by the news of John's death.
"He was one of the giants of radio and will be missed, not just by everyone at the BBC, but by millions of listeners of all ages."
Tony Blair's spokesman said the Prime Minister was "genuinely saddened by the news".
He added: "His view is that he was a unique voice in British broadcasting and used that voice to unearth new talent and different subjects and make them accessible to a much wider audience."
Radio 1 DJ Jo Whiley, who presented coverage of the Glastonbury Festival with Peel, paid tribute to her colleague and close friend.
She said: "John was simply one of my favourite men in the whole world - as a music fan and presenter he was simply an inspiration."
Mainstream music
Peel was born in Heswall, near Liverpool, and after completing his military service in Britain in 1962, went to the US where he began working for a radio station in Dallas.
It was because of him I got to hear some of the most obscure but influential music I ever heard
James Dean Bradfield, Manic Street Preachers
He joined Radio 1 at the launch in 1967, and established himself with the late night programme Top Gear.
He became one of the first DJs to give exposure to punk, reggae and hip-hop, before they crossed over into the mainstream.
Peel's programme built up a reputation around the world, and in addition to his Radio 1 programme, he could also be heard on the BBC's World Service.
James Dean Bradfield, lead singer of the Manic Street Preachers, paid tribute to Peel.
He told BBC News Online: "It was because of him I got to hear some of the most obscure but influential music I ever heard.
"He was a lifeline to hearing music I would never have heard otherwise. The service he provided was getting to hear music that you couldn't buy in Cardiff. He was a portal to a whole new world."
He always had his finger on the pulse of the music industry
Michael Bradley, Undertones
Blur lead singer Damon Albarn said John Peel's patronage was "one of the most significant things that happened to us in our careers".
"The world is going to be a poorer place with his sudden departure. I will miss him deeply," he added.
"I want to send my heartfelt sympathy to his lovely family. John's memory will never be forgotten because he had the spirit of music in him."
Favourite record
After announcing Peel's death on Radio 1, the station played his favourite song, Teenage Kicks, by the Undertones.
Michael Bradley, bass player for the Undertones, spoke of his shock on learning of Peel's death.
He said: "He was a very funny, very warm man and we will always be grateful for what he did for The Undertones.
"Personally, I find it incredible what he did for the band and we always got huge pride out of the fact that he said Teenage Kicks was his favourite single.
"He always had his finger on the pulse of the music industry and the fact that Radio 1 played the Undertones, the White Stripes and the Strokes today showed just how relevant he remained throughout his career."
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thinking too much...
leads to thoughts like this...
I live in a country where a man who woke up on his 40th birthday and decided he'd try not being a drunk is President, but I can't get a job with Clear Channel because I have bad credit.
Grrr....
on another note I think I'm gonna give NANOWRIMO a try this year...
lord knows I'm not busy enough...
I know how I'll start, but I have no idea where it will go...
and I'm staying true to my nature and tackling the first draft without an outline...
50,000 words by december 1st...
anyone care to join me?
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Home / Notre Dame Cathedral History
One of the most notable monuments in Paris (and in all of Europe for that matter) is the Notre Dame Cathedral. This Catholic treasure is over 800 years old. It is located on a small island called the Ile de la Cite in the middle of the River Seine. The building of the cathedral was completed over the course of 200 years; it was started in 1163 during the reign of King Louis VII and was completed in 1345.
As is the case with most notable historical monuments, The Notre dame Cathedral Paris has its own share of both the glorious and the tragic historical moments that will forever remain indelible in the mind of people everywhere. Among them is the crowning of Henry VI of England right inside the cathedral in 1431. The Cathedral was at one time in a stage of total disrepair and close to the point of being demolished, but was later saved by Napoleon who himself was crowned Emperor in 1804 inside the Cathedral.
After restoring the Cathedral back to its formal beauty and in the midst of World War II, it was rumored that the German soldiers might destroy the newly installed stained glass. It was therefore removed and only reinstalled again after the war had ended. The steps were taken because of only one particular archeological glass window called the Rose window which is supposed to be the biggest glass window in the world produced in the 13th century.
Discussing the history of the Notre Dame Cathedral Paris would not be complete without discussing the most famous story of the peasant girl, Joan of Arc, who is well documented in the history books of France. She was very brave and claimed that she had visions from God. This poor girl had spiritual and character richness even though she had no material goods. Through her visions and courage, she helped France in the battles against the English troops. While using the wise military tactics of Joan of Arc, the well-known heroine, France won many fights against England. She also was a great supporter of the monarchy; she is indirectly the reason why Charles VII was crowned. However, Joan of Arc was captured by the Burundians’, accused of heresy and tragically, she was burned at the stake. But this was not the end of the brave girl. On the 7th of July 1456, Joan of Arc was declared innocent and a martyr. In 1909 she was beatified in the famous Notre Dame cathedral in Paris by Pope Pius X.
Notre Dame Cathedral which can also be called “our lady” is still in use today by the Roman Catholic Church for Sunday mass and it is the seat of the Archbishop of Paris. A notable and distinct historical artefact which is very popular today is the famous bell that has been redesigned to ring automatically. Any visitor to the bell tower should be prepared to climb the 140 steps staircase, if desirous of seeing the historical bell or have a glimpse of the city of Paris.
Also inside the Notre Dame Cathedral, among so many historical artefacts, is the notable 17th century organ with all of its parts still functional. There are also drawings, plans and engravings which showed the old and hidden mysteries of several of the church developments and how the city of Paris came into being.
The Notre-Dame Blog is a great place to find out more about the World-Famous Cathedral that captures the hearts of all Paris visitors, not just Catholics.
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'Persona 5: The Royal' Announced for PS4, More Details Coming Soon
/ Mar 25 2019
I don't think these Phantom Thieves are really fixing the world, and they're not truly helping people. "In the end, I feel like you can only solve that yourself", she says. What is Persona 5: The Royal? Unfortunately, for now, there is still not much to go off, but Atlus promises to release more information next month, on April 24 .
Mass production ‘gearing up’ for new iPads, AirPods
Since publishers aren't interested in Apple's revenue sharing conditions, some news outlets might not be part of this app when released, according to The Wall Street Journal. Digitimes's sources said that Apple would introduce the devices on March 25th. A Twitter user pointed out that all of CoinX's previous tweets (leaks) proved true, which means this new leak is most likely to be accurate as well.
Apple takes aim at Netflix with TV and news service
Apple's video streaming service has been rumoured for quite some time. A " Netflix for Games subscription service that Apple has reportedly been working on may be unveiled at Monday's Apple media event". There is also an untitled M. Night Shyamalan series and untitled Oprah Winfrey projects, among others. Over the a year ago, Apple has set a goal of doubling its services revenue from $25 billion in 2016 to $50 billion by 2020.
Facebook And Instagram Stored Millions Of Passwords In Plain Text Format
Then, the public discovered that a British analytics company gained access to data of more than 87 million Facebook users. On the "plus side", this latest scandal is slightly less bad than past scandals like the Cambridge Analytica fracas.
Google Stadia will outperform mid-range PCs
It will allow players to stream their games onto almost any screen, ranging from phones and tablets to tvs and laptops. Commenting on the move, Jade Raymond, Director, Stadia Games and Entertainment, said that the game studio will develop new generations of next-gen games as well as work with external developers to help support Google's cutting-edge technology by various partner studios.
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It also has a wirelessly-charging iPhone range, and a wireless charging Apple Watch line. Apple claims this to make it truly hands-free and easier to change songs, make a call, adjust the volume or get directions while navigating. The charging case offers multiple charges and you can get up to 24 hours of listening time. Supports fast charge: Experience fast charge Apple 7.5W and Samsung 10W function with connect QC2.0 and QC3.0 chargers and attached QC standard protocol.
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Last Updated: Monday, 8 September, 2003, 12:51 GMT 13:51 UK
Bush vows to defeat Iraq resistance
Dozens of US soldiers have died in guerrilla-style attacks
US President George W Bush has told the American people that Iraq is "now the central front" in a global war against terrorism, and called on other countries to contribute to the effort.
In his first national address since declaring in May that America's mission in Iraq had been accomplished, Mr Bush said he would ask Congress for $87bn to continue occupation and reconstruction in Iraq and Afghanistan.
He said the spending was necessary to continue the war on terror in Iraq.
"Enemies of freedom are making a desperate stand there, and there they must be defeated. This will take time, and require sacrifice," Mr Bush said.
"Yet we will do whatever is necessary, we will spend what is necessary, to achieve this essential victory in the war on terror, to promote freedom, and to make our own nation more secure," he said in the televised speech.
We are transforming a place of torture chambers and mass graves into a nation of laws and free institutions
Watch the speech
Hours after Mr Bush's speech, the UK Government announced it would be sending about 1,200 extra troops to Iraq.
It insisted the move was not "a kneejerk response" to recent attacks on British troops.
On Monday, two American soldiers were wounded when their vehicles came under attack in Baghdad.
It was the first attack in 48 hours on US soldiers who have suffered daily harassment in Iraq.
Democrat attack
Congressional leaders were reportedly stunned by the size of Mr Bush's funding request, which was far larger than they had expected, the Washington Post reported.
The $87bn figure would increase America's federal budget deficit by almost 20% for the coming year.
Mr Bush also appealed for international help to resolve Iraq's security problems, saying the United Nations had a "responsibility" to take on an expanded role in the country.
US war funds
War-related funds requested from Congress (2002-2003) - $75bn
Funds for Iraq and Afghanistan requested from Congress (2003-2004) - $87bn
Budget allocated in March for 'stabilisation phase' - $12bn
Current cost of post-war occupation - $3.9bn/month
Budget allocated in March for 'reconstruction phase' - $7.2bn
Rebuilding cost (McKinsey estimate, July) - up to $90bn
Iraq's estimated pre-war oil revenues - $15-25bn/year
Iraq's estimated debt - $60 - 130bn
US budget deficit
Estimated 2002-2003 - $401bn
War costs challenge for Bush
His speech comes just days before the second anniversary of the 11 September attacks on New York and Washington, in the aftermath of which Mr Bush announced the launch of a war on terrorism.
Ruling out any premature withdrawal from Iraq, Mr Bush warned that the Middle East could "either become a place of progress and peace, or it will be an exporter of violence and terror that takes more lives in America and in other free nations".
The BBC's Ian Pannell in Washington says that the speech was a political gamble for Mr Bush, who is facing accusations that he failed to devise or explain a workable post-war plan for Iraq.
Democrats hoping to challenge Mr Bush for the White House next year were quick to attack the address.
"Let's be clear - a 15-minute speech does not make up for 15 months of misleading the American people on why we should go to war against Iraq or 15 weeks of mismanaging the reconstruction effort since we have been there," presidential hopeful Howard Dean said.
Washington has presented a draft resolution to the UN Security Council under which it hopes to secure a multinational force for Iraq and boost UN involvement in the country's political future.
The speech comes as Americans prepare to remember the anniversary of 11 September
But the draft resolution has already been criticised by France, Germany and Russia. These countries, which opposed the US-led invasion of Iraq, complain it does not give the UN or the Iraqi people enough power.
In the latest effort to control instability in Iraq, US forces in the central city of Najaf say Shia Muslim militias there must lay down their weapons or face being disarmed, by force if necessary.
The militias have seized control of the city in the wake of last month's massive car bombing which killed leading Shia cleric Mohammed Baqer al-Hakim and more than 100 others.
The BBC's Matt Frei
"Once again the President has appealed to America's patriotism and sacrifice"
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The outstanding new Fargo adventure from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author.
There are many rumors about the bay off Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. Some say it was the site of the lost empire of the Solomon king and that great treasure lies beneath the waters. Others say terrible things happened here, atrocities and disappearances at the hands of cannibal giants, and those who venture there do not return. It is cursed.
Which is exactly what attracts the attention of husband-and-wife treasure-hunting team Sam and Remi Fargo. How could they resist? Clues and whispers lead them on a hunt from the Solomons to Australia to Japan, and what they find at the end of the trail is both wonderful and monstrous—and like nothing they have ever seen before.
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Cussler began writing novels in 1965 and published his first work featuring his continuous series hero, Dirk Pitt, in 1973. His first non-fiction, The Sea Hunters, was released in 1996. The Board of Governors of the Maritime College, State University of New York, considered The Sea Hunters in lieu of a Ph.D. thesis and awarded Cussler a Doctor of Letters degree in May, 1997. It was the first time since the College was founded in 1874 that such a degree was bestowed.
Cussler is an internationally recognized authority on shipwrecks and the founder of the National Underwater and Marine Agency, (NUMA) a 501C3 non-profit organization (named after the fictional Federal agency in his novels) that dedicates itself to preserving American maritime and naval history. He and his crew of marine experts and NUMA volunteers have discovered more than 60 historically significant underwater wreck sites including the first submarine to sink a ship in battle, the Confederacy's Hunley, and its victim, the Union's Housatonic; the U-20, the U-boat that sank the Lusitania; the Cumberland, which was sunk by the famous ironclad, Merrimack; the renowned Confederate raider Florida; the Navy airship, Akron, the Republic of Texas Navy warship, Zavala, found under a parking lot in Galveston, and the Carpathia, which sank almost six years to-the-day after plucking Titanic's survivors from the sea.
In September, 1998, NUMA - which turns over all artifacts to state and Federal authorities, or donates them to museums and universities - launched its own web site for those wishing more information about maritime history or wishing to make donations to the organization. (www.numa.net).
In addition to being the Chairman of NUMA, Cussler is also a fellow in both the Explorers Club of New York and the Royal Geographic Society in London. He has been honored with the Lowell Thomas Award for outstanding underwater exploration.
Cussler's books have been published in more than 40 languages in more than 100 countries. His past international bestsellers include Pacific Vortex, Mediterranean Caper, Iceberg, Raise the Titanic, Vixen 03, Night Probe, Deep Six, Cyclops, Treasure, Dragon, Sahara, Inca Gold, Shock Wave, Flood Tide, Atlantis Found, Valhalla Rising, Trojan Odyssey and Black Wind (this last with his son, Dirk Cussler); the nonfiction books The Sea Hunters, The Sea Hunters II and Clive Cussler and Dirk Pitt r Revealed; the NUMA® Files novels Serpent, Blue Gold, Fire Ice, White Death and Lost City (written with Paul Kemprecos); and the Oregon Files novels Sacred Stone and Golden Buddha (written with Craig Dirgo) and Dark Watch (written with Jack Du Brul).
Clive Cussler lives in Arizona.
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Kathryn Shattuck: Cowgirl Conquers Manhattan
Oct 2018 - Issue 242
By Kathleen Sykes
Kathryn Shattuck comes from hardy pioneer stock, growing up in southwest Kansas on a cattle ranch in her family for generations. “We’re an hour’s drive from Dodge City,” she says. In the early 1880s, Enoch Austin Shattuck, her great grandfather, left Erie, Pennsylvania and headed west to Tombstone, Arizona where he formed the Erie Cattle Company. Butch Cassidy was on his payroll. He eventually settled in Kansas where it was greener and the weather kinder.
Kathryn’s mother, a music teacher, also came from a family of settlers. She met Kathryn’s father when their families set them up. Kathryn’s first love was music – she plays the piano and the oboe. She entered the Uni- versity of Kansas, with an interlude at Northwestern studying music, then graduated KU with a major in creative writing. After spending summers in the North-east visiting her father’s two sisters, she knew New York was where she wanted to live.
“When I arrived I house-sat the apartment of a cellist. There was a constant flow of musicians in and out and wonderful impromptu music.” Her first job was at Lincoln Center working in marketing and subscriptions. Seven years later she was ready for a change. “I temped for an employment agency. One day I was sent on a job; I had no idea it was The New York Times.” She was assigned administrative work for the Sports section.
The Times knew a good thing when they saw it and put her on the payroll full time, first in Culture, then also in Arts & Leisure interviewing celebrities and writing articles about movies, books, and television. “I sometimes wish I had worked in hard news but my path led me to the arts. I worked my way up. It was terrifying at times. And then there were the egos.” During her twenty five years at the paper, she has interviewed countless actors, musicians, writers, and artists. “It can be fascinating. I love hearing about art and the process, but three quarters of my time is dealing with publicists. I recently interviewed Burt Reynolds. He wasn’t too mobile but he was flirtatious and lively. It was a fun hour."
“My first major interview was with William Burrows. He was being honored at a symposium at the University of Kansas. It was trial by fire. I sat at a table across from him and started asking questions. He totally ignored me as he read a newspaper he held up in front of him. I thought, oh no, I’m going back to New York with nothing. But he eventually talked to me for several hours.”
Kathryn met her husband, Paul Papay, while having a drink with a friend. “It was a set up but I wasn’t aware of it.” The couple married about the time Paul decided to open an engineering and construction business with his brother in Ramsey. “Our first home was a rented carriage house on the river in Piermont.” They decided to buy and found a house in Palisades that had originally been a blacksmith shop. The couple has a son, Spencer, now a senior at Columbia. “He worked endless hours this summer in investment banking at Citigroup. He can support me in my old age,” she said laughing.
Kathryn now freelances for The New York Times several days a week, writing features for A Word With and television and film reviews for The Week Ahead.
She recently returned from a visit to the family ranch. A devastating fire a year ago swept across vast acres of land. “I was helping oversee the construction of new fencing. Everything has been destroyed. There were seven structures that are gone and we had no insurance.” She has been working on a book on her family history. “I thought it would be about the continuation of the homestead but we may have to sell. Now it could be about its loss.”
Hopefully things will work out and Kathryn will be singing Home on the Range for many years to come.
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Culture Club was a rock group popular in the 1980s. The group originated in the UK. However, they were able to compose and deliver music that had a broad appeal. Companies facing a merger or acquisition face this same challenge in needing a culture with a broad appeal.
Culture has been defined as the sustainable competitive advantage that an organization can control. Culture surrounds the raw competency of an organization. In other words, how the organization does what it does and how well it does it. So how is culture manufactured and where does it originate within an organization?
Boy George was the leading influence in establishing the culture of the successful group and in setting certain fashion trends. The culture of an organization is often created from the top leadership. However, surprisingly enough, it can come from other areas within the company. For example, oftentimes middle management can create the culture. This can result when top management is weak. Weak leadership can even be dangerous within leadership itself. For example, many of you will no doubt remember the Daimler-Chrysler merger.
In the beginning, this merger was described as a merger of equals. However, the companies soon realized that this was a fairy tale as the differences in the cultural perspectives drove a wedge between the two companies. There were many cultural differences between the two workforce giants. The German executives had executive assistants. The Americans did not have such a luxury. Business decisions made by the Germans went through a strict protocol. The American mid-level managers were empowered to make some decisions without kicking it up the ladder for executive approval.
The Germans smoked and drank wine with lunch and worked late hours. Alcohol and smoking were banned in the American facilities. The Americans did not miss any deadlines, but did not routinely work late hours. The Germans wanted product recalls to be associated with a particular brand, like Dodge or Plymouth, not the Daimler-Chrysler name as a whole. Boy George was known for his biting wit that often provided the group with press releases adding to their growing popularity. The Germans did not understand that the company was powerless to stop or avoid media attention, wanted or not, when events such as a recall were revealed. The German work culture was formal and structured. The Americans were more freewheeling. There was a large pay difference between the Americans and the Germans. The Americans had higher pay. However, the German executives had no problem spending elaborate amounts of money on travel, hotels, expensive meals, and wine. The Americans were budget conscious. The CEO of Daimler, Jurgen Schrempp, carried on an open affair with his secretary who was his constant companion. The Americans were more straight-laced about such things, or at least more discreet. Just as Boy George was very different in dress and activities, so too were the differences between the two CEOs. Jurgen Schrempp, the CEO of the German company Daimler was a dynamic, gutsy, and charismatic individual. His American counterpart, the CEO of Chrysler, Robert Eaton, was not. He was weak. After the merger, he often retreated to his office for days at a time. In less than two years, Schrempp and Daimler were in charge and Eaton was out. The Germans eventually took over the entire company. Do you have a Boy George on your executive suite? What plans do you have in place to control the culture?
Inevitably, when a merger occurs there will be various levels of performers and game players all waiting to either perform, play along, or who try to sabotage the culture. Let’s name these and determine how each should be handled. Those who are high performers and match the culture are definitely keepers. Low performers who fit the culture might find another position within the organization and become keepers. Low performers who do not match the culture need to be invited to leave the organization. Contrary to Culture Club’s mega hit, “I’ll Tumble 4 Ya,” not everyone will “tumble” for the new company. The one who creates the biggest dilemma are the high performers who do not fit the culture. This individual must go. Moreover, this should not be a company secret. Rather, it should be, as a colleague suggested, in the vein of a public hanging. While this choice is clear. Many leaders hang onto this type of employee about six months longer than he or she should. This can spell real trouble. In fact, the two most disastrous mistakes that leaders make are indecision and hanging onto high performers who fail to integrate into the culture. The discovery that the individual must go, usually takes about six months. How much of your profits are you willing to sacrifice for such a worker? Not convinced?
High performing cultures have a substantially higher performance rate of around 30% versus low performing cultures of 9% (or less). In addition, 95% of troubled company issues are culture related. In fact, corporate culture problems are at the core of most businesses in trouble. What can be done to prevent your culture club from meeting its demise such as the Daimler-Chrysler scenario and the breakup of Boy George and his merry team? Pick your partner carefully. Companies with like products seem to do best. Before the merger occurs, communicate fully and openly with the members of each organization about the merger. Make it a point to understand the other company’s culture including its diversity or lack thereof. Remember that diversity isn’t just about ethnicity. It’s also about gender, age, experience, lifestyles, and education. Adapt the best practices from each organization If there are to be layoffs, put a program in place to help these folks find other employment, even if it’s just a referral to a resume writing service. Not only is it the right thing to do, it will pay off in tons of good will and fewer lawsuits. Give employees a voice and let them provide innovative ways to make the merger work. Ensure that everyone at the executive level is on board and that they will champion the change. Just as music requires an integrated team of professionals like publishers, songwriters, artists, and technical talent so does changing and building culture. Strong leadership is required for such ambiguous endeavors. Creating a shared purpose helps ensure a hit.
Robert H. Good, MBA
The Good Group
www.thegoodgroup.com
Diane Bogino
Performance Strategies, Inc.
www.performstrat.com
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In the early years PHG built its reputation by taking under-performing properties in their specific markets and turning them positively around, beginning with the historic Gunter Hotel in San Antonio, TX. Within two years the Gunter Hotel earned Four Diamond recognition, completed a very successful Chapter 11 reorganization and affiliated with Sheraton Hotels. Other hospitality clients during the “Distressed ’80s” include the Crockett Hotel, El Tropicana and Deluxe Inn in San Antonio; the Doubletree Hotel in Austin; the Grand Hotel at the Galleria in Houston (Currently known as The Derek); Carefree Inn and Resort (Currently known as The Boulders), Scottsdale, AZ; and several distressed hotels in other Southwestern markets.
With each of these assets, the PHG team developed a vision, directed renovation and repositioning, provided management and timely sale of the hotels. In each case, they successfully coordinated affiliations with secure, profitable national hotel franchises, including Hilton, Marriott, Hyatt, Sheraton, Radisson and Intercontinental Hotel Group.
In 1990, Karena Hotels Texas, formed by a London-based hotel investment company, hired PHG as director/operator for its US hotel ventures and invested $50 million in Texas hotels, including the development and opening of the Radisson Hotel San Antonio Market Square, the 325-room Holiday Inn Riverwalk North (formerly El Tropicana), the 211- room Holiday Inn Express (formerly Deluxe Inn) and the Sheraton Grand Hotel at the Galleria in Houston, Texas.
As CEO, McClure simultaneously directed the management of five hotels in Florida and development of the new Holiday Inn Maingate Disney World in 1991 owned by the London investment firm. The Radisson was completely retrofitted from an existing shell building to a 250- room full service hotel. PHG provided all development and pre-opening services for this $9.2 million project. The Holiday Inn Riverwalk North was closed and completely renovated to include the Holiday Inn franchise. PHG provided all development and pre-opening services for this $7 million project. PHG developed and managed the renovation of the Holiday Inn Express including the Holiday Inn franchise. This was a $2.5 million project.
The Sheraton Grand was also completely renovated under PHG’s direction. This was a $9 million project.
PHG was instrumental in converting a 198-room independent suite hotel in Austin, TX to a Summerfield Suites by Wyndham and converting a 200-room suite hotel in Houston, TX to a Springhill Suites by Marriot. These were both $3 million projects. Under Phoenix’s direction, each of these hotels completed multimillion dollar renovations and repositioning, resulting ultimately in the profitable sale of these assets.
During the years 1990-1993 PHG provided management, marketing and development support to the $350,000 per room Holiday Inn Kensington in London, England and the new Holiday Inn Crown Palace in Lisbon, Portugal.
PHG’s success is a result of its hands-on focused operating style fueled by experience and expertise. In order to maintain PHG’s formula for past successes, and in response to demand for PHG’s management and consulting expertise, a policy/philosophy was implemented in 1993 that PHG only accepts projects in which it has a profit participation or equity interest.
The first venture under this philosophy was the Guadalupe River Ranch, a 360-acre exclusive resort ranch and seminar / conference center in the Texas Hill Country, in which PHG acquired 50% interest. It was originally operated in the early ’90s as a private retreat center that was rented to groups only. Under PHG this Hill Country ranch was opened to the public and developed into a resort that featured gourmet food and a complete resort experience. During the 6+ years of PHG’s ownership and management, the Guadalupe River Ranch achieved many milestones including revenue growth from $300,000 to $3 million annually; a net operating income in excess of 20% in each of the last 3 years; and national acclaim for food, wine and service featured in Southern Living, Texas Monthly, Texas Highways, Gourmet, and Wine Spectator (Award of Excellence in 2000). PHG successfully sold its interest in the ranch in March of 2000 in order to facilitate future growth.
In 2000 PHG’s next venture was another boutique project, acquiring the historic Ye Kendall Inn in Boerne, TX a state and national historic landmark built in 1859. From the acquisition in 2000 to the selling of their interest in 2012, Ye Kendall Inn blossomed from humble beginnings as a 17 room Bed & Breakfast, to a bustling 36-room Inn, Conference Center Award Winning Restaurant and AVEDA Lifestyle Spa. PHG developed and managed the award winning Limestone Grille, which achieved many accolades & national acclaim for food, wine and service. Limestone Grille featured in Southern Living, Texas Monthly, Texas Highways, Gourmet, and Wine Spectator (Award of Excellence in 2000 – 2012). Ye Kendall Inn became one of the top and most sought after destinations for small group/corporate retreats, and celebrity weddings (Blake Shelton & Miranda Lambert), The Inn hosted many of the groups who sought the gourmet food & resort experience from the Guadalupe River Ranch. Ye Kendall Inn was also know and sought after as the pre-eminent wedding destination in the Texas Hill Country and Boerne, for both locals and celebrities. PHG sold its interest in the Inn in 2012, again in order to facilitate future growth.
2008 began a focus on new development, with the construction of the 130 Suite Homewood Suites by Hilton at Stone Oak, which opened in August of 2008, and would be the first of many PHG ventures with Hilton.
In 2010, PHG developed and managed the successful conversion of the Radisson Market Square Hotel (which PHG had managed since 1992) to the new 250 Room Doubletree by Hilton San Antonio Downtown Hotel, bringing the hotel to new life, and a renewed management and license agreement.
The years 2013 – 2017 PHG continued its focus on new and future development, and a deeper relationship with Hilton hotels.
PHG took over the Embassy Suites McAllen Hotel, and developed/managed the successful conversion of this beautiful property to the new 262 suite Doubletree Suites by Hilton McAllen bringing the hotel to new life, and a renewed management and license agreement. The hotel’s restaurant, 2nd Street Bistro was recently featured in Texas Monthly, a big achievement for a hotel based Bistro.
PHG next developed a Hotel/Convention Center project in Live Oak, TX (North San Antonio) with the construction of the 138 room Hilton Garden Inn & Conference Center. PHG is the General Partner and manages this hotel. This venture was the first of many public/private partnerships for PHG and local municipalities developing hotels with conference centers. The Hilton Garden Inn Live Oak opened in January 2016.
In their second public/private partnership venture, PHG developed the 156 Suite Embassy Suites Hotel, Spa & Conference Center at Brooks City Base. The landmark project was visionary and pioneering; the first of what will be many projects in a partnership with Brooks Development Authority to bring additional investment to San Antonio’s Southeast Side. The hotel features 23,000 square feet of meeting space, a salon, and world-class spa with Salt Cave. The Embassy Suites Hotel & Spa at Brooks City Base opened in May of 2017.
In November 2017, PHG acquired the Hotel Indigo San Antonio Riverwalk. PHG is General Partner and manager of the property, which will undergo significant upgrading, repositioning of food & beverage to be a premiere “arts” hotel in the burgeoning upper/Pearl channel of the famed San Antonio Riverwalk. The Indigo is location between two former PHG projects, the El Tropicana and the Hotel Havana.
Future development projects are also underway, with the groundbreaking of a new construction 120-room boutique hotel “The Bevy” a Doubletree Hotel by Hilton in Boerne, TX, which is scheduled to open in 1st Quarter 2019. Other projects underway include a Coastal Resort Hotel with Marina under pre-development on the Texas Gulf Coast.
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Professor Fred (Wah Soon) Chow: from famine to electron’s tracker
By Natalia Bateman, March 2017
From an early age, Professor Chow wondered about how plant science could be used to solve famine, learning from the horror that affected his country of birth and his family in such a devastating way.
“It was really my childhood that got me interested in photosynthesis, although we learnt very little about it in school. The famine in China, left a lasting impression on me. I think it was probably in the back of my mind as a teenager, even before coming to Australia, that I wanted to study photosynthesis one day,” he remembers.
Photo credit: Charles Tambiah
According to the best estimate, 38 million people died during what was called the Great Leap Forward, causing a nationwide famine. “The Chinese government took labour away from agriculture to work on steel production and inflated all the agriculture production figures, and this simply meant that soon there was not enough food for everyone,” he says.
Chow was born after the Second World War in the southern part of China, a very poor, overpopulated region. His father, as many men of his generation, left the family when Chow was a month old, to work overseas and send money back to his family, so all the children were raised by his mother. The next time he saw his father it was 1960. “He was a stranger, really,” he says.
However, this stranger took a decision that embarked Chow on a very different life path from the other members of his family: he decided to send his youngest son to Australia. “It was not a Colombo Plan but a Father’s Plan, probably in the hope I would one day study medicine or something like that”, he says. “What I did not tell my father was that I also had a plan A: I wanted to study the way plants convert the energy from sunlight into chemical energy.”
Chow arrived in Tasmania in 1966. Almost immediately he was hooked on photosynthesis and into the problem that has occupied his entire scientific career: how leaves use the powerful energy that results from splitting water molecules during the process of photosynthesis.
“When I finished my undergraduate studies, I applied for one scholarship at Flinders University and thought that if I didn’t get it I was going to study teaching or electronics. But I was successful and started my PhD in 1972. I was aware it was going to be a tough career and it has been always mostly on a knife edge; you have to be really interested to go into research, because ultimately satisfying that interest may be the main reward.”
Photosynthesis hasn’t stopped providing Professor Chow with that reward for more than 40 years.
“It is enormously rewarding to find small pieces of this complex jigsaw puzzle called photosynthesis. It’s considered to be the most important process on Earth as it sustains nearly all life, produces oxygen and in turn gives rise to the ozone that protects us from the Sun’s ultraviolet radiation.”
He explains the focus of his research is investigating how the photosynthetic machinery is organised and how that impacts on photosynthetic performance. “In a nutshell, I am interested on how the leaf makes use of the electrons and protons that are released after the water molecule is split, which ultimately drives the conversion of sunlight into chemical energy.”
Chow recently retired from ANU after many years working in there. “I will continue investigating and remain associated with research. This is a really exciting place to be for a plant scientist. The strength of ANU’s research in photosynthesis is that we deal with processes over a very large range of scales, both a very big spatial and very big temporal range of scales. From the canopy, to the leaf to the green particles in the leaf and inside those particles, at the molecular level. In terms of the time scale we research photosynthesis over a season, in terms of ecology or in the leaf doing photosynthesis over hours, minutes or seconds. We also research events that happen after a leaf receives a flash of light, events that occur usually in milliseconds or shorter.”
“I have spent my career trying to track the electrons that are moving around inside plants, but now, I am trying to get optical signals without cracking the chloroplasts open. I started by isolating the green particles from the leaf, but now I am more interested in monitoring on what happens inside the leaf.”
I am also interested in tracking protons, but they are much more elusive than electrons. Being able to follow protons would be very fascinating because they partly drive the energy storage systems in the plant – ATP and NADPH – that are finally used to fix carbon molecules.
Chow smiles when I ask him what he does outside his research. “Research has dominated most things in my life. Outside it, it was of course my family, and I used to run a weekend Chinese language school in the ACT voluntarily for 16 years. I also used to compete in middle level competition table tennis for quite a number of years, but now I play against other seniors socially. During the past decade, my wife and I have been travelling quite a bit, usually combining sightseeing with visits to a number of labs scattered through China – from where I first came. The rest of my life has been dedicated to photosynthesis.”
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Dys-turbia?
Posted by Mike Madison on Tuesday, August 12, 2008 | Tags: suburbs | 1 Comments
From the Freakonomics blog at The New York Times, an excerpt from a post that solicited comments on the future of the suburbs:
Alan Berube, research director and fellow at the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution, which he joined in 2001.
“… in 40 years perhaps we’ll get beyond our fixation with “the suburbs” (love them or hate them) and develop a richer vocabulary for what lies beyond the city limits.”
In 40 years, “the suburbs” won’t exist.
With all their current heterogeneity and further changes on the horizon, chances are we’ll have retired the phrase from popular lexicon by 2050.
That’s not because they’ll depopulate — the nation will need to accommodate at least another 100 million people during this period, and not even $10-per-gallon gas will send the majority of Americans scrambling back to cities. But “suburbia” will be an even less useful descriptor in 2050 for the diverse range of communities in which the majority of Americans will continue to live. An educated guess at what we’re likely to see:
New physical forms. Just as America’s first suburbs sprouted up along the streetcar lines built in the early 20th century, the first half of the 21st century will see the growth of “light rail suburbs” (even in areas that don’t have the rail yet).
High oil prices and the imperative to address global climate change will help spur denser residential development along transit corridors outside of cities. We’d see more of it today, if supply kept up with demand. Chris Leinberger estimates that walkable suburban communities served by transit today command anywhere from a 40 percent to 200 percent price premium over conventional drivable suburban development.
New demographic profiles. Suburbs of 2050 will be a far cry from the Ozzie and Harriet communities a century before. Already, most immigrants in the nation’s newer gateways — metro areas like Sacramento, Charlotte, Minneapolis, and Washington — skip the city and head directly for suburban communities. These regions boast a far-flung ethnic patchwork, with a tremendous diversity of national origin groups. Meanwhile, as the Baby Boom generation “ages in place,” the suburbs of several major metro areas are projected to have larger elderly population shares than their cities by 2030. And even today, there are more poor Americans living in the suburbs of major metro areas than in cities.
New governance. Diversifying populations and changing infrastructure needs will demand a less parochial, more regional approach to public decision making. Small suburban jurisdictions can’t finance and manage transit systems, public hospitals, or affordable housing on their own. A move toward more metropolitan collaboration on these issues, borne of economic necessity, may further blur the traditional political boundaries that define suburbs.
“Suburbia” is an oppositional concept — in Latin, it’s literally “under city.” But as the people and places that define suburbia look more and more like those we associate with the city, and less and less like one another — in 40 years perhaps we’ll get beyond our fixation with “the suburbs” (love them or hate them) and develop a richer vocabulary for what lies beyond the city limits.
[cross-posted at Blog-Lebo]
1 Response to "Dys-turbia?"
Ken Zapinski said... 8/15/2008 12:26 PM
It's an interesting question, as the variety of perspectives presented on the original post underscore. But whatever form suburbs take, I think that public transit will have to play an increasingly important role. Pittsburgh is already more transit-oriented than most regions, and the busways and T line are strong assets around which to build a world-class system.
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The return of the revenge of high dose vitamin C for cancer
Vitamin C is back in the news as a cancer cure. Is it? No, no it is not.
David Gorski on February 10, 2014
A 3-D image of the ascorbic acid (vitamin C) molecule.
Somehow, —except that we are, as you will soon see.
Because I’m the resident cancer specialist on this blog, it usually falls on me to discuss the various bits of science, pseudoscience, and quackery that come up around the vast collection of diseases known collectively as “cancer.” I don’t mind, any more than my esteemed colleague Dr. Crislip minds discussing infectious diseases and, of course, vaccines, the most effective tool there is to prevent said infectious diseases. In any case, there are certain things that can happen during a week leading up to my Monday posting slot on SBM that are the equivalent of the Bat Signal. Call them the Cancer Signal, if you will. One of these happened last week, thus displacing that post I’ve been meaning to write on a particular topic once again. At this rate, I might just have to find a way to write an extra bonus post. But not this week.
In any case, this week’s Cancer Signal consisted of a series of articles and news reports with titles like:
(FOX News).
(Kansas University Medical Center press release).
( Nature ).
(BBC).
(NBC News).
(WebMD).
( LA Times ).
These stories, to varying degrees, miss the point. Unfortunately, I confess that I wasn’t able to help at least one of them. A reporter happened to leave me a message Tuesday morning, which is my operating room day, and I didn’t have time to read the paper and to get back to her before her deadline. That paper, by the way, from Jeanne Drisko and Qi Chen from, yes, Kansas University Medical Center, and indicates to me that STM ‘s standards are slipping. But then, STM did publish a rather credulous paper by our old friend Ted Kaptchuk on placebos; so maybe I expect too much. Clearly STM appears to be looking for more papers on “complementary and alternative medicine” (CAM) or “integrative medicine.”
Be that as it may, a describes the recently published research thusly:
People with ovarian cancer who receive high-dose vitamin C injections are less likely to report toxic side effects from chemotherapy than people who had chemotherapy alone, according to the results of a small clinical trial.
The study, published today in Science Translational Medicine 1, was too small to assess whether the combination of chemotherapy and vitamin C combats cancer better than chemotherapy alone. But accompanying work in mice suggests that the two treatments could be complementary.
The results are the latest salvo in long-running controversy over the use of vitamin C against cancer. Early studies championed by Nobel-prizewinning chemist Linus Pauling in the 1970s suggested that vitamin C could help to fight tumours2. But larger clinical trials failed to substantiate those claims3, 4.
With the spin, from , being:
One potential hurdle is that pharmaceutical companies are unlikely to fund trials of intravenous vitamin C because there is no ability to patent natural products.
“Because vitamin C has no patent potential, its development will not be supported by pharmaceutical companies,” said lead researcher Qi Chen.
“We believe that the time has arrived for research agencies to vigorously support thoughtful and meticulous clinical trials with intravenous vitamin C.”
Yes, indeed. The same old tropes are there, from the claim that vitamin C has usefulness in treating cancer to the old ascorbate warriors’ lament that there’s no patent potential in vitamin C, which means that pharmaceutical companies don’t want to invest money into doing science and clinical trials on it because there’s no profit potential. Of course, I’ve written fairly extensively about vitamin C and cancer before, using it as an example of how even a two-time Nobel Prize winner like Linus Pauling could fall prey to bad science when he wandered outside of his area of expertise. Every so often these stories come up suggesting that Linus Pauling has somehow been vindicated and how vitamin C is the greatest thing for cancer patients since surgeons first discovered that some cancers could be cured by cutting them out. Inevitably, I have to throw cold water on such claims. No, Linus Pauling has not been vindicated, and, no, vitamin C for cancer is not all that great.
Also, no, contrary to what critics say, I’m not close-minded about vitamin C and cancer. Unlike so many “alternative” cancer treatments, it’s actually a chemical and, at the doses used by alternative cancer practitioners, a drug. There’s even a (very) weakly plausible mechanism by which it might work. However, in vitro, the concentrations required to provide even a whiff of a hint of antitumor activity are ridiculously high, and the same is true in animal models. Let’s just put it this way. Imagine a pharmaceutical company had developed a compound with properties identical to that of vitamin C and could thus own the complete patent on it as a drug. Given the ridiculously high concentrations and doses required in preclinical models to demonstrate a hint of antitumor activity, that pharmaceutical company would probably retire that compound before even the animal model stage because, as I like to put it, getting any useful anticancer activity out of it would be such a long run for a short slide. A good drug for cancer is, at the very minimum, active at low or reasonable concentrations against the cancer cells being targeted, and vitamin C fails miserably on that count. Worse, there are at least indications that in some cases vitamin C might interfere with chemotherapy.
Vitamin C in Kansas
So does this study change my opinion? Not really. It suggests there might be some utility for ascorbate (vitamin C) against ovarian cancer, but that ascorbate therapy for cancer still remains at best a long run for a very short slide right into the gloved ball of reality to be tagged for a third out. (OK, I’ll stop with the baseball analogies.)
The dubious reasoning begins right in the first paragraph, with the authors’ justification for “re-examining” ascorbate as a cancer therapy. Basically, they point out that the pharmacokinetics of oral ascorbate dosing is different from intravenous dosing, to the point where it is possible to obtain serum ascorbate concentrations of 10 mM (millimolar). To give those of you who aren’t chemists a rough comparison of just how high that concentration is, most cancer drugs have active concentrations in the nanomolar (nM) to micromolar (uM) range, in other words, a thousand-fold to a million-fold lower than 10 mM. For example, the (the concentration that leaves only 50% of cells alive) for paclitaxel is in the , depending upon the cell line, and 50 nM is considered a good, effective therapeutic concentration. You get the idea. You need a lot of ascorbate:
By contrast, when ascorbate is injected intravenously, tight control is bypassed and pharmacologic concentrations of ascorbate are established until excess ascorbate is excreted by kidney. Plasma concentrations greater than 10 mM are safely sustained in humans for ~4 hours (10–13). When patients have normal renal function and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) activity, toxicity is minimal even with intravenous doses as high as 1.5 g/kg, equivalent to 105 g for a 70-kg person (2, 12). These data indicate that intravenous administration of pharmacologic ascorbate doses is safe and similar to drug administration. Therefore, the effect of ascorbate in cancer treatment is worth reexamining.
These are huge doses, consistent with previous experiments in mice with a xenograft from an ovarian cancer cell line (Ovcar5) in which 4 g/kg of ascorbate was administered twice daily for a total of 8 g/kg/day. The result was an inhibition of xenograft growth of around one-third after 30 days. Results for a pancreatic cancer cell line and a glioblastoma cell line were only marginally better.
The authors did several cell culture studies in which ovarian cancer cell lines were treated with ascorbate and various chemotherapeutic agents. The authors reported an IC50 of between 0.3 and 3.0 mM, which is still incredibly high for an anticancer drug. The authors blithely write that this is “easily achievable” with IV ascorbate. Maybe so, but given the quantities involved, if you’re going to use a drug that requires such high plasma concentrations to have activity, that activity had better be awesome. None of the activity shown in this paper can be characterized as being particularly impressive. Worse, the authors, despite testing several ovarian cancer cell lines, only tested one non-tumorigenic immortalized ovarian line, HIO-80, and, finding that the IC50 to kill HIO-80 cells was much higher than all but one of the other cell lines (), proclaimed a high degree of specificity for cancer. Moreover, HIO-80 cells They likely . Finally, the authors only used one assay for proliferation, the MTT assay. This particular assay is very popular (I use it in my lab not infrequently) because it is faster and easier than counting viable cells and also allows for large experiments using 96-well plates. However, the MTT assay depends on the metabolism of cells to produce a dye that is detected. The amount of light absorbance due to the dye is assumed to be proportional to the number of viable cells. Usually, this assumption is reasonable accurate, but with this and render that assumption incorrect. For instance, one wonders if very high concentrations of ascorbate can interfere. I’d want to see a control demonstrating that the MTT results correspond to cell number.
In other words, if I were a reviewer for this paper, not so fast, I’d have said. I want to see the results for at least a couple of more non-tumorigenic cell lines and a control validating the MTT in the presence of so much ascorbate (even if just a reference) before I’ll let you conclude that the effects of ascorbate are highly specific for cancer over normal ovarian cells. At the very least, I wouldn’t have considered it unreasonable to ask for a couple more non-tumorigenic ovarian epithelial cell lines to be tested.
In any case, the authors also did some mechanistic studies, the results of which were consistent with the activity of ascorbate in cancer requiring the production of peroxide (H2O2), as H2O2 scavengers blocked the effect. They also did a series of experiments that indicated synergy between ascorbate and carboplatin, a common chemotherapy drug used in ovarian cancer. One area that, as a reviewer, I’d have gotten on the authors’ case was the series of xenograft experiments using ovarian cancer cell lines implanted under the skin of immunodeficient mice, specifically this part:
Two-tailed Student’s t test was performed for comparison of treated groups to control group in the cell and animal experiments, as well as for toxicity comparison between chemotherapy group and chemotherapy + ascorbate group.
No, no, no, no, no! This is some pretty basic stuff here. There are eight different experimental groups, and the authors didn’t control for multiple comparisons, as far as I am able to tell. Pair-wise two-tailed t-tests are not the correct statistical test for determining statistical significance in such a case; likely some form of ANOVA would be, given that the dataset consists of tumor weights and volumes of ascites, the latter being a common estimate of ovarian tumor burden in mouse models. Some form of ANOVA, likely factorial ANOVA, would have been the proper test, given that there are combinations of three drugs being used. Whatever the correct test is (and I’ll leave that to the statisticians out there), I know that Student’s t-test isn’t it, and that using Student’s t-test will often produce “false positives” that appear statistically significant but aren’t.
All of this, however, is the warm-up to the part of the study that got it noticed, namely the clinical trial. Without the clinical trial, this would have been yet another in vitro and animal study of high dose vitamin C that provokes a collective yawn throughout the scientific community. The clinical trial itself was a randomized prospective phase I/IIa clinical trial, which means that the trial was designed to combine an evaluation of toxicity with a pilot study to evaluate efficacy and safety. Its primary objective was to “determine the safety of high-dose intravenous ascorbate when combined with first-line chemotherapy paclitaxel and carboplatin in the treatment of advanced-stage ovarian cancer,” along with evaluation for toxicity. Consequently, the two groups were (1) standard carboplatin paclitaxel (Cp + Pax) and (2) carboplatin paclitaxel ascorbate (Cp + Pax + AA) according to this design:
Ascorbate dose for the Cp + Pax + AA arm was established via dose escalation initiated at 15 g per infusion titrated up to a therapeutic range of 75 or 100 g per infusion, with a target peak plasma concentration of 350 to 400 mg/dl (20 to 23 mM) (12, 13). The ascorbate infusion was given at a rate of 0.5 g/min, and 400 mg of magnesium chloride (Wellness Pharma) was supplemented into each infusion. Once the therapeutic dose was established, the Cp + Pax + AA group received ascorbate two times per week in conjunction with chemotherapy for 6 months, and injectable ascorbate was continued for another 6 months after chemotherapy completion.
In addition, the authors noted:
Two subjects voluntarily withdrew from the Cp + Pax arm before treatment commenced because they wanted intravenous vitamin C, and they were excluded from data analysis. Two subjects were removed from the Cp + Pax + AA arm because they were noncompliant with tobacco use, and one was removed from the Cp + Pax + AA arm after in vitro cytotoxic assays detected that her tumor cells were resistant to all chemotherapy. These three subjects received doses of chemotherapy and ascorbate, so their adverse events were counted, but they were excluded from the survival report (table S3). Double blinding was used at enrollment and randomization, but was not maintained during the treatment because no placebo control was used.
So what we have here is a small clinical trial with a 19% dropout rate that wasn’t even blinded. It reported zero difference in overall survival (both were, as one would expect for ovarian cancer at this stage, abysmal), and zero statistically significant difference in time to relapse/progression. In all fairness, there would have had to have been an enormous effect to produce a statistically significant effect on survival or progression in such a small study, but these are the two “hard” endpoints that would be least affected by the lack of blinding, although one notes that time to progression could be affected by lack of blinding when the definition depends on interpreting scans. It’s also hard not to note that the differences in toxicities are all in the mildest reported toxicities, grades 1 and 2 (out of a scale of 1 to 5, with a score of 1, which denotes mild toxicity that requires no intervention to 5, which is death). There were no statistically significant (or even close to statistically significant) differences in toxicities graded 3 or 4, which are the most troubling kind. Take a look at the graph:
Then, when the authors broke it down, this is what they found:
Notice the types of complaints with the biggest difference: gastrointestinal (which usually includes symptoms such as nausea, abdominal pain; dermatology, which usually includes itching and rashes of various types); pulmonary, which often includes symptoms of shortness of breath, cough, and the like, and renal/genitourinary, which is the only one that’s less objective. So, basically, what we have is a study that found no benefit in overall survival or time to progression (not unexpected for such a small study). More importantly, contrary to the way it was trumpeted to the press, the decrease in adverse events actually observed was limited to the least serious adverse events (grade 1 = minor, causing no limitation of activity, no intervention required; grade 2 = moderate, some limitation of activities, minimal intervention indicated) with the most potential to be subject to reporting bias, which in the context of a trial that is not blinded makes the difference reported probably meaningless. In other words, this was probably a negative study, a long run for a short slide, indeed. (Sorry, couldn’t resist.)
There’s no woo like Kansas woo
I thought it might be interesting to provide SBM readers with a bit of context about the institution from which this rather pointless study emerged. The reason that this particular study rose to the level that I thought I had to blog about it was not because a reporter ed me about it. Rather, one of the key investigators on the study, Jeanne Drisko, recently appeared on a web chat,
This chat featured, in addition to Dr. Drisko, Dr. Josephine Briggs, the current director of the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) as well as an associate editor from Science Translational Medicine , Yevgeniya Nusinovich, M.D., Ph.D., who served as moderator. titles include Director, KU Integrative Medicine and the Riordan Endowed Professor of Orthomolecular Medicine, and, consistent with her involvement in this study, KUMC offers its patients . The video itself was standard fair, where the Trial to Assess Chelation Therapy was incorrectly touted as a success warranting further study for chelation therapy for heart disease. However, what tweaked me to write this was Dr. Drisko’s mention at the end of her “hot off the presses” study of high dose vitamin C.
Personally, I found it instructive to take a look at the website for Dr. Drisko’s home department, the . The first thing I noticed when I perused its website was this:
Nourishing the whole person — body, mind and spirit — and stimulating the body’s natural healing response, is our mission at KU Integrative Medicine. We combine the best therapies from conventional medicine with our integrative medicine approach, to form a comprehensive system of biomedical care.
From a patient’s very first visit with us, we attempt to uncover the underlying story that set the patient on their journey from wellness to disease. We listen. Based on our findings, we tailor a plan for each individual patient based on their lifestyle, their needs and their preferences. We consider the patient an integral part of the treatment team, and encourage patients to take control of their medical care.
Practitioners at KU Integrative Medicine include physicians, a naturopathic doctor, nurses, certified neurofeedback technicians and registered dietitians. We hope that you want to learn more about us, our services, and how we can help you forge a new path to healing and wellness.
Because Integrative Medicine attempts to dig deeper, very specialized lab work is often ordered. This also enables us to personalize your care and cater to your biochemical individuality.
Yes, it’s the same old tropes. KU claims to combine the “best of both worlds”. Unfortunately, whenever I hears that phrase, there’s another “” that I can’t help but think of, and it involves . Sadly, in this case the assimilation appears to involve science-based medicine being assimilated by quackery. After all, there’s a there, and naturopathy is nothing more than a cornucopia of pretty much every quackery imaginable under the sun, be it homeopathy, traditional Chinese medicine, “energy healing” modalities, and, of course “detoxification.”
However, it isn’t the fact that there’s a naturopath based at an academic medical center promising to “listen” and provide “individualized care.” That’s pretty much par for the course. In fact, it’s probably hard to find an “integrative medicine” program that doesn’t claim to “listen” and provide “personalized” or “individualized” care. Nor was I particularly surprised to see “” or . Nor was I even particularly surprised to see that KU offers . No, what caught my interest was the fact that KU offers “oral and intravenous vitamin and mineral therapies,” as in IV vitamin C being offered at a major academic medical center.
Orthomolecular medicine? Yes, Orthomolecular medicine, a that posits that if the body needs some vitamins and minerals that more, more, more would be better. Indeed, it’s the quackery espoused by Linus Pauling that features, in particular, high dose vitamin C as one of its favored modalities. And guess what? The integrative medicine program at KU offers to its patients. It even has a on its site. What’s really scary, however, is this:
How do I know if the intravenous vitamin C therapy will work for my cancer?:
Each individual responds differently, and we can’t predict how different tumor types will react. A PET scan is usually a guidepost. If the PET is positive, the tumor usually responds to the vitamin C. If the PET is negative but there is active tumor present, the vitamin C is less effective in most cases. Vitamin C works best in the early stages of cancer when used in conjunction with chemotherapy or radiation. They will only consult patients who are also following along with a traditional oncologist.
It’s even said that there are “no contraindications to giving intravenous vitamin C with any chemotherapy when proper protocol is followed” and that the only chemotherapy that intravenous vitamin C doesn’t work with is methotrexate “because of urine pH requirements.” Upon what evidence is this based? Well, before it was minimal. One examined on intravenous vitamin C. It was an in vitro and xenograft study (i.e., preclinical), and Dr. Drisko wasn’t even the corresponding author. Another study was a . The third was a . None were particularly impressive. After this study, the evidence still remains unimpressive.
It turns out that Dr. Drisko has a rather dubious honor (dubious, at least to me; no doubt she doesn’t consider it so). I’m referring to her title of Chair of the . Yes, ANH-USA is one of the premier “health freedom” organizations in this country, “health freedom” in reality meaning advocating for freedom from pesky government regulation that might interfere with the selling of supplements. She’s also an advisory board member for the Institute for Functional Medicine. Functional medicine, a nebulously defined “specialty,” is pure pseudoscience, as has been described before. Perhaps the most famous practitioner of “functional medicine” is Dr. Mark Hyman, who promotes it under the title of “.” In fact, the sad thing is :
Dr Drisko teaches a fourth-year medical student elective in integrative medicine along with other teaching duties to 1st and 2nd year students, nursing students, and practicing physicians. A fellowship program in integrative medicine for primary care physicians began in 2008 under Dr Drisko’s leadership. She was nominated by the University of Kansas Medical Student Assembly to receive the Rainbow Award for Excellence in Teaching the Art of Medicine.
Dr Drisko serves the School of Medicine at KU Med by sitting on multiple committees, provides guidance for the State of Kansas on topics in integrative medicine, and participates at the national level on CAM initiatives. Dr Drisko is a member of the Kansas Cancer Research Institute and an advisory board member of the General Clinical Research Center at the University.
Meanwhile, the website for KUMC helpfully :
Will my insurance cover the costs of the vitamin C infusions?
They will not cover them in most cases. Alternative medicine doctors must use billing codes that are not usually accepted by insurance companies. And because vitamin C infusions are not FDA approved, insurance companies are not inclined to cover costs. Vitamin C infusions range in price from $125.00 to $160.00.
Yes, you read that right. An academic medical center is trying to facilitate patients going to alternative medicine practitioners who administer high dose vitamin C.
Depressingly, Dr. Drisko is intimately involved in the education of the next generation of doctors in Kansas and has started an “integrative medicine” program for primary care physicians, the better to “integrate” woo into real medicine. This latest highly unimpressive study being touted as evidence that high dose intravenous ascorbate/vitamin C therapy is anything other than a long run for a short slide (oops, there I go again!) is merely part of the campaign to insinuate quackademic medicine even more firmly into the mainstream than it has regrettably already succeeded in doing.
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Thursday, December 25
Christmas 1941: Yet in thy dark streets shineth ...
John Batchelor's wonderful introduction to Stanley Weintraub's 2011 book, Pearl Harbor Christmas: A World at War, December 1941 featured clips from two of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's most memorable talks to the American nation; one broadcast on the radio the day after the December 7 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the other on the occasion of the President's lighting of the White House Christmas tree that year -- with Winston Churchill at his side (photo above). During that second talk Roosevelt asked rhetorically how during this darkest hour Americans could celebrate Christmas -- and answered the question, in perhaps the most memorable speech given in modern times.
John urged that people re-read the book once a year around Christmas time, to remember what a threat constitutes. Well, the podcast of his discussion with the author is a great substitute if the holiday season leaves no time for reading.
The world Stanley Weintraub describes for John's radio audience, the world as it was in 1941 as the Japanese triumphed, horribly, in region after region while the Germans pounded away at the Russian front, is indeed a good refresher on what evil in full battle regalia looks like.
The more one knows about the era, the easier it is to understand why to this day it dominates the defense/foreign policy of the Western nations, and still influences the Chinese view of Japan. In many instances this focus on what I've called the "Ghost of 1939" has had tragic consequences. And yet, listening to the discussion, it struck me that it's less a remembrance of World War Two and more a fogginess on the details of what actually happened that's caused American policymakers in post-war eras to blindly adhere to strategies that should be limited to responding to the kind of situations the Allies faced.
An example is that Roosevelt and Churchill knowingly made a deal with the devil, that being Josef Stalin. It has been argued that they hadn't needed to give away so much to Stalin but I think this view ignores the time pressure under which the deal was struck.
No such pressure existed for post-war American (and British/European) leaders who made deals with Gulf Sunni leaders espousing a strict interpretation of Islam that is fully as dehumanizing as Nazism. Yet Western leaders struck the deals on the rationale that harks to the fateful decision by Churchill and Roosevelt to treat Stalin as 'the enemy of my enemy.'
This conversion into a long-term strategy of a tactic that should only be deployed in the most pressing of wartime circumstances has been disastrous. So perhaps it's Washington policymakers who most need to read Stanley Weintraub's book, or at least listen to his discussion with John Batchelor, to visit in their minds the way things actually were at Christmas, 73 years ago.
But enough of giving advice that will surely fall on deaf ears. A nifty companion volume to Weintraub's offering is historian David McCullough's 2010 In the Dark Streets Shineth: A 1941 Christmas Eve Story. Only 40 pages long, the book is about Winston Churchill's wartime visit to Washington. From Mark Tooley's review at the American Spectator, the book:
... focuses particularly on the British premier's first hearing of the hymn, O Little Town of Bethlehem, sung at a Christmas service to which FDR took him. The carol partly echoed some words in Churchill's first radio broadcast to the American people, referring to the "English-speaking world" at Christmas as a "brightly-lighted island of happiness and peace."
Churchill had steamed the Nazi submarine–infested Atlantic to appear in Washington, D.C. on December 22, just two weeks after Pearl Harbor had made Britain and America wartime allies.[...] During the Christmas Eve tree lighting on the White House south lawn, the Marine Band had performed Joy to the World and the Hallelujah chorus from Handel's The Messiah.
On Christmas Day, FDR took Churchill to Foundry Methodist Church, about a mile north of the White House. "I like to sing hymns with the Methodys," FDR had once chirpily explained of his sometime attendance at Foundry, despite his being Episcopalian.
Various dignitaries joined them, including Army Chief of Staff General George Marshall and Vice President Henry Wallace. The minister prayed for "those who are dying on land and sea this Christmas morning."
Churchill later remembered of the service: "Certainly there was much to fortify the faith of all who believe in the moral governance of the universe."
Surprisingly, it was the first time Churchill ever heard O Little Town of Bethlehem, written 75 years earlier by a Philadelphia pastor while visiting the Holy Land during Christmas.
Memorably, the hymn declares: "Yet in thy dark streets shineth the everlasting light; the hopes and fears of all the years are met in thee tonight."
According to McCullough's book, both FDR and Churchill typically "sang lustily, if not exactly in tune."[...]
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Troodos Mountain Trees
Thái Nguyên Tea
Above Yangon
Blank page / January 31, 2017 by Savannah Dodd
The turn of a year is like the turn of a page.
It's like that feeling you get when you open a leather-bound journal. The pages are off-white and weighty, and you feel that every word you write on them should equal in weight and depth. It's terrifying to be faced with a blank page, even one like this, backlight and autosaved every twenty seconds.
New Years resolutions have never been my strength, but I've been thinking a lot about the kinds of things I'd like to incorporate into my workflow this year. The first of which is this very post.
Every month I'll write updates about my photography, and likely some musings about life. (I'll try - and fail - to keep them brief.) Feel free to contact me to let me know if something strikes you! I'm always keen to have a chat.
If you haven't been diligently stalking my Facebook page, I imagine you may have missed some of the exciting ways in which my photography has grown over the last year! Here's a brief recap of what my 2016 was all about.
First off and most importantly, I moved from Thailand to Northern Ireland. Although it probably sounds like I literally moved in the wrong direction, I am loving my new life in Northern Ireland. Belfast has opened up so many opportunities to me, from exhibitions to publications.
On the topic of exhibitions, in 2016 gave me the chance to open two solo exhibitions, one in Thailand and one in Northern Ireland. The first exhibited Sacred Spaces as part of the F/28 Chiang Mai Month of Photography, and the second exhibited Election Day at the John Hewitt Bar. My work was also featured in three curated exhibitions in Bangor, Northern Ireland, in Los Angeles, California, and in Saint Charles, Missouri.
Belfast has also paved the way for me to begin selling my work at art fairs! These fairs have been so much fun and have led me to meet some incredible artists. If you are in Belfast, you should definitely come around to the next one!
Last but certainly not least, for the very first time, my photography has been printed in a journal! Here in Belfast there is a brand new journal for the arts called The Tangerine. Four of my photographs were printed in the first edition.
What's on tap for 2017
First and foremost in my mind for 2017 is my upcoming trip to Vietnam. I couldn't be more excited about the opportunity to live in Hanoi for two months, and I anticipate full creative flow in the new environment. As preparation for the trip, I've decided it's time to invest in a lens that can give me a wider angle, so I'm currently in the throes of an online shopping crisis.
But besides that, my lips are sealed! Stay tuned to my Facebook page for more news coming very soon ... particularly in regard to publications (hint, hint)
exhibition, publication, recap July 14, 2017
Hiking Northern Ireland
World Press Photo Festival in Amsterdam
Share Uganda
Introducing the Photography Ethics Centre
© Savannah Dodd 2019
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Spain Population: 48,563,476
Spain's powerful world empire of the 16th and 17th centuries ultimately yielded command of the seas to England. Subsequent failure to embrace the mercantile and industrial revolutions caused the country to fall behind Britain, France, and Germany in economic and political power. Spain remained neutral in World War I and II but suffered through a devastating civil war (1936-39). A peaceful transition to democracy following the death of dictator Francisco FRANCO in 1975, and rapid economic modernization (Spain joined the EU in 1986) gave Spain a dynamic and rapidly growing economy and made it a global champion of freedom and human rights. More recently the government has focused on measures to reverse a severe economic recession that began in mid-2008. Austerity measures implemented to reduce a large budget deficit and reassure foreign investors have led to one of the highest unemployment rates in Europe. Spain assumed a nonpermanent seat on the UN Security Council for the 2015-16 term.
Strategic location along approaches to Strait of Gibraltar; Spain controls a number of territories in northern Morocco including the enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla, and the islands of Penon de Velez de la Gomera, Penon de Alhucemas, and Islas Chafarinas
Location: Southwestern Europe, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, North Atlantic Ocean, Bay of Biscay, and Pyrenees Mountains; southwest of France
note: there are two autonomous cities - Ceuta and Melilla - and 17 autonomous communities including Balearic Islands and Canary Islands, and three small Spanish possessions off the coast of Morocco - Islas Chafarinas, Penon de Alhucemas, and Penon de Velez de la Gomera
Size comparison: almost five times the size of Kentucky; slightly more than twice the size of Oregon
Land Boundaries: total: 1,952.7 km border countries (5): Andorra 63 km, France 646 km, Gibraltar 1.2 km, Portugal 1,224 km, Morocco (Ceuta) 8 km, Morocco (Melilla) 10.5 km note: an additional 75-meter border segment exists between Morocco and the Spanish exclave of Penon de Velez de la Gomera
exclusive economic zone: 200 nm (applies only to the Atlantic Ocean)
Climate: temperate; clear, hot summers in interior, more moderate and cloudy along coast; cloudy, cold winters in interior, partly cloudy and cool along coast
Terrain: large, flat to dissected plateau surrounded by rugged hills; Pyrenees Mountains in north
Natural resources: coal, lignite, iron ore, copper, lead, zinc, uranium, tungsten, mercury, pyrites, magnesite, fluorspar, gypsum, sepiolite, kaolin, potash, hydropower, arable land
other: 9.1% (2011 est.)
Irrigated land: 38,000 sq km (2012)
Natural hazards: periodic droughts, occasional flooding volcanism: volcanic activity in the Canary Islands, located off Africa's northwest coast; Teide (elev. 3,715 m) has been deemed a Decade Volcano by the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior, worthy of study due to its explosive history and close proximity to human populations; La Palma (elev. 2,426 m), which last erupted in 1971, is the most active of the Canary Islands volcanoes; Lanzarote is the only other historically active volcano
Current Environment Issues: pollution of the Mediterranean Sea from raw sewage and effluents from the offshore production of oil and gas; water quality and quantity nationwide; air pollution; deforestation; desertification
International Environment Agreements: party to: Air Pollution, Air Pollution-Nitrogen Oxides, Air Pollution-Sulfur 94, Air Pollution-Volatile Organic Compounds, Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, Antarctic-Marine Living Resources, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Marine Life Conservation, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands, Whaling
signed, but not ratified: Air Pollution-Persistent Organic Pollutants
Nationality: noun: Spaniard(s)
adjective: Spanish
Ethnic groups: composite of Mediterranean and Nordic types
Languages: Castilian Spanish (official nationwide) 74%, Catalan (official in Catalonia, the Balearic Islands, and the Valencian Community (where it is known as Valencian)) 17%, Galician (official in Galicia) 7%, Basque (official in the Basque Country and in the Basque-speaking area of Navarre) 2%, Aranese (official in the northwest corner of Catalonia (Vall d'Aran) along with Catalan; note: Aragonese, Aranese Asturian, Basque, Calo, Catalan, Galician, and Valencian are recognized as regional languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages
Religions: Roman Catholic 94%, other 6%
15-24 years: 9.56% (male 2,400,188/female 2,243,311)
25-54 years: 45.24% (male 11,200,786/female 10,771,652)
Major urban areas - population: MADRID (capital) 6.199 million; Barcelona 5.258 million; Valencia 810,000 (2015)
Health expenditures: 9% of GDP (2014)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 148,900 (2015 est.)
Country name: conventional long form: Kingdom of Spain
conventional short form: Spain
local long form: Reino de Espana
local short form: Espana
etymology: derivation of the name "Espana" is uncertain, but may come from the Phoenician term "span," related to the word "spy," meaning "to forge metals," so, "i-spn-ya" would mean "place where metals are forged"; the ancient Phoenicians long exploited the Iberian Peninsula for its mineral wealth
Capital: name: Madrid
note: Spain has two time zones including the Canary Islands
Administrative divisions: 17 semi-autonomous communities (comunidades autonomas, singular - comunidad autonoma) and 2 autonomous cities* (ciudades autonomas, singular - ciudad autonoma); Andalucia; Aragon; Asturias; Canarias (Canary Islands); Cantabria; Castilla-La Mancha; Castilla-Leon; Cataluna (Castilian), Catalunya (Catalan), Catalonha (Aranese) [Catalonia]; Ceuta*; Comunidad Valenciana (Castilian), Comunitat Valenciana (Valencian) [Valencian Community]; Extremadura; Galicia; Illes Baleares (Balearic Islands); La Rioja; Madrid; Melilla*; Murcia; Navarra (Castilian), Nafarroa (Basque) [Navarre]; Pais Vasco (Castilian), Euskadi (Basque) [Basque Country]
note: the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla plus three small islands of Islas Chafarinas, Penon de Alhucemas, and Penon de Velez de la Gomera, administered directly by the Spanish central government, are all along the coast of Morocco and are collectively referred to as Places of Sovereignty (Plazas de Soberania)
Independence: 1492; the Iberian peninsula was characterized by a variety of independent kingdoms prior to the Muslim occupation that began in the early 8th century A.D. and lasted nearly seven centuries; the small Christian redoubts of the north began the reconquest almost immediately, culminating in the seizure of Granada in 1492; this event completed the unification of several kingdoms and is traditionally considered the forging of present-day Spain
National holiday: National Day, 12 October (1492); year when Columbus first set foot in the Americas
Constitution: history: previous 1812; latest approved by the General Courts 31 October 1978, passed by referendum 6 December 1978, signed by the king 27 December 1978, effective 29 December 1978 amendments: proposed by the government, by the General Courts (the Congress or the Senate), or by the self-governing communities submitted through the government; passage requires three-fifths majority vote by both houses and passage by referendum if required by one-tenth of the members of either house within 15 days of passage; proposals disapproved by both houses are submitted to a joint committee, which submits an agreed upon text for another vote; passage requires two-thirds vote in Congress and simple majority vote in the Senate; amended 1992, 2007, 2011 (2016)
Legal system: civil law system with regional variations
Executive branch: chief of state: King FELIPE VI (since 19 June 2014); Heir Apparent Princess LEONOR, Princess of Asturias, daughter of the monarch, born 31 October 2005
head of government: President of the Government or Acting Prime Minister Mariano RAJOY (since 20 December 2011); Vice President (and Minister of the President's Office) Soraya SAENZ DE SANTAMARIA (since 22 December 2011)
cabinet: Council of Ministers designated by the president elections/appointments: the monarchy is hereditary; following legislative elections, the monarch usually proposes the leader of the party or coalition with the largest majority of seats as president, who is then indirectly elected by the Congress of Deputies; election last held on 20 December 2015; vice president and Council of Ministers appointed by the president; note - because no party received a majority of the votes in both houses, and because the leaders of the parties with the most votes were unable to form a coalition to form a majority, new elections were held on 26 June 2016
election results: percent of National Assembly vote - NA
note: there is also a Council of State that is the supreme consultative organ of the government, but its recommendations are non-binding
Legislative branch: description: bicameral General Courts or Las Cortes Generales consists of the Senate or Senado (266 seats as of 2013; 208 members directly elected in multi-seat constituencies by simple majority vote and 58 appointed by the regional legislatures; members serve 4-year terms) and the Congress of Deputies or Congreso de los Diputados (350 seats; 348 members directly elected in 50 multi-seat constituencies by proportional representation vote and 2 directly elected from the North African Ceuta and Melilla enclaves by simple majority vote; members serve 4-year terms or until the government is dissolved)
elections: Senate - last held on 26 June 2016 (next to be held 26 June 2016); Congress of Deputies - last held on 20 December 2015 (next to be held no later than 26 June 2020); note - the four main parties were unable to form a government so a second election was held six months later
election results: Senate - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - PP 151, PSOE 63, Podemos 23, ERC 12, EAJ/PNV 6, CDC 4, other 7; Congress of Deputies - percent of vote by party - PP 33.0%, PSOE 22.7%, Podemos 21.1%, C's 13.0%, ERC-CatSi 2.6%, CDC 2.0%, EAJ/PNV 1.2%, other 4.4%; seats by party - PP 137, PSOE 85, Podemos 71, C's 32, ERC-CatSi 9, CDC 8, EAJ/PNV 5, other 3
Judicial branch: highest court(s): Supreme Court or Tribunal Supremo (consists of the court president and organized into the Civil Room with a president and 9 judges, the Penal Room with a president and 14 judges, the Administrative Room with a president and 32 judges, the Social Room with a president and 12 judges, and the Military Room with a president and 7 judges); Constitutional Court or Tribunal Constitucional de Espana (consists of 12 judges) judge selection and term of office: Supreme Court judges appointed by the monarch from candidates proposed by the General Council of the Judiciary Power, a 20-member governing board chaired by the monarch that includes presidential appointees, and lawyers and jurists confirmed by the National Assembly; judges can serve until age 70; Constitutional Court judges nominated by the National Assembly, executive branch, and the General Council of the Judiciary, and appointed by the monarch for 9-year terms
subordinate courts: National High Court; High Courts of Justice (in each of the autonomous communities); provincial courts; courts of first instance
Political parties and leaders: Amaiur [Xabier ERREKONDO] (a separatist political coalition that advocates Basque independence from Spain) Asturias Forum or FAC [Cristina COTO] Basque Country Unite (Euskal Herria Bildu) or EH Bildu [Pello URIZAR] (coalition of 4 Basque pro-independence parties) Basque Nationalist Party or PNV or EAJ [Andoni ORTUZAR] Canarian Coalition or CC [Claudina MORALES Rodriguez] (coalition of five parties) Canarian Nationalist Party or PNC [Juan Manuel GARCIA Ramos] Catalan Agreement of Progress (Entesa Catalonia de Progress) or ECP [Carles BONET i Reves] (Senate coalition of Catalan parties - PSC, ERC, ICV, EUA) Change or Cambio-Aldaketa Ciudadamos Party or C's [Albert RIVERA] Democracy and Freedom or DiL [Francesc HOMS Molist] (2015 merger of Cemocratic Convergence of Catalonia or CDC, Democrats of Catalonia, Reagrupament) Democratic Union of Catalonia or UDC [Josep Maria PELEGRIA] Galician Nationalist Bloc or BNG [Ana PONTON Mondelo] Gomera Socialist Group or ASG Initiative for Catalonia Greens or ICV [Joan HERRERA i Torres and Dolors CAMATS] Podemos [Pablo IGLESIAS Turrion] Popular Party or PP [Mariano RAJOY Brey] Republican Left of Catalonia or ERC [Oriol JUNQUERAS i Vies] Spanish Socialist Workers Party or PSOE [interim leader Javier FERNANDEZ] Union of People of Navarra or UPN [Javier ESPARZA] Union, Progress and Democracy or UPyD [Gorka MAEIRO] United Left or IU [Alberto GARZON] (a coalition of parties including the Communist Party of Spain or PCE and other small parties; ran as Popular Unity or UP in 2015 election) Yes to the Future or Geroa Bai [Koldo MARTINEZ] (a coalition of four Navarran parties)
Political pressure groups and leaders: Association for Victims of Terrorism or AVT (grassroots organization devoted primarily to supporting victims of the Basque Fatherland and Liberty (ETA) terrorist organization) Catholic Church Socialist General Union of Workers or UGT (includes the smaller independent Workers Syndical Union or USO) Trade Union Confederation of Workers' Commissions or CC.OO. Spanish Confederation of Employers' Organizations or CEOE other: business and landowning interests; free labor unions (authorized in April 1977); university students
International organization participation: ADB (nonregional member), AfDB (nonregional member), Arctic Council (observer), Australia Group, BCIE, BIS, CAN (observer), CBSS (observer), CD, CE, CERN, EAPC, EBRD, ECB, EIB, EITI (implementing country), EMU, ESA, EU, FAO, FATF, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (national committees), ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IEA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), LAIA (observer), MIGA, NATO, NEA, NSG, OAS (observer), OECD, OPCW, OSCE, Pacific Alliance (observer), Paris Club, PCA, PIF (partner), Schengen Convention, SELEC (observer), SICA (observer), UN, UN Security Council (temporary), UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNIFIL, Union Latina, UNOCI, UNRWA, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO, ZC
National symbol(s): Pillars of Hercules; national colors: red, yellow
National anthem: name: "Himno Nacional Espanol" (National Anthem of Spain)
lyrics/music: no lyrics/unknown
note: officially in use between 1770 and 1931, restored in 1939; the Spanish anthem is the first anthem to be officially adopted, but it has no lyrics; in the years prior to 1931 it became known as "Marcha Real" (The Royal March); it first appeared in a 1761 military bugle call book and was replaced by "Himno de Riego" in the years between 1931 and 1939; the long version of the anthem is used for the king, while the short version is used for the prince, prime minister, and occasions such as sporting events
Diplomatic representation in the US: chief of mission: Ambassador Ramon GIL-CASARES Satrustegui (since 5 June 2012)
chancery: 2375 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20037
telephone: [1] (202) 452-0100, 728-2340
consulate(s) general: Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, San Francisco, San Juan (Puerto Rico) consulate(s): Kansas City (MO)
Diplomatic representation from the US: chief of mission: Ambassador James COSTOS (since 24 September 2013); note - also accredited to Andorra
embassy: Serrano 75, 28006 Madrid
mailing address: PSC 61, APO AE 09642
consulate(s) general: Barcelona
After experiencing a prolonged recession in the wake of the global financial crisis that began in 2008, in 2014 Spain marked the first full year of positive economic growth in seven years, largely due to increased private consumption. At the onset of the financial crisis, Spain's GDP contracted by 3.7% in 2009, ending a 16-year growth trend, and continued contracting through most of 2013. In 2013, the government successfully shored up struggling banks - exposed to the collapse of Spain's depressed real estate and construction sectors - and in January 2014 completed an EU-funded restructuring and recapitalization program. Until 2014, credit contraction in the private sector, fiscal austerity, and high unemployment weighed on domestic consumption and investment. The unemployment rate rose from a low of about 8% in 2007 to more than 26% in 2013, but labor reforms prompted a modest reduction to 22% in 2015. High unemployment strained Spain's public finances, as spending on social benefits increased while tax revenues fell. Spain’s budget deficit peaked at 11.4% of GDP in 2010, but Spain gradually reduced the deficit to just under 7% of GDP in 2013-14, and 4.7% of GDP in 2015. Public debt has increased substantially – from 60.1% of GDP in 2010 to nearly 101% in 2015. Exports were resilient throughout the economic downturn and helped to bring Spain's current account into surplus in 2013 for the first time since 1986, where it remained in 2014-15. Rising labor productivity and an internal devaluation resulting from moderating labor costs and lower inflation have helped to improve foreign investor interest in the economy and positive FDI flows have been restored. The government's efforts to implement labor, pension, healthcare, tax, and education reforms - aimed at supporting investor sentiment - have become overshadowed by political activity in 2015 in anticipation of the national parliamentary elections in December. The European Commission criticized Spain’s 2016 budget for its easing of austerity measures and its alleged overly optimistic growth and deficit projections. Spain’s borrowing costs are dramatically lower since their peak in mid-2012, and despite the recent uptick in economic activity, inflation has dropped sharply, from 1.5% in 2013 to a negative 0.6% in 2015.
GDP (purchasing power parity): GDP (purchasing power parity): $1.69 trillion (2016 est.) $1.64 trillion (2015 est.) $1.589 trillion (2014 est.)
GDP (official exchange rate): GDP (official exchange rate): $1.252 trillion (2015 est.)
Agriculture - products: grain, vegetables, olives, wine grapes, sugar beets, citrus; beef, pork, poultry, dairy products; fish
Industries: textiles and apparel (including footwear), food and beverages, metals and metal manufactures, chemicals, shipbuilding, automobiles, machine tools, tourism, clay and refractory products, footwear, pharmaceuticals, medical equipment
Labor force: 22.89 million (2016 est.)
highest 10%: 24% (2011)
Distribution of family income - Gini index: 35.9 (2012) 32 (2005)
Inflation rate (consumer prices): Inflation rate (consumer prices): -0.3% (2016 est.) -0.6% (2015 est.)
Current account balance: $24.29 billion (2016 est.) $16.7 billion (2015 est.)
Exports - commodities: machinery, motor vehicles; foodstuffs, pharmaceuticals, medicines, other consumer goods
Exports - partners: France 15.7%, Germany 11%, Italy 7.4%, UK 7.4%, Portugal 7.1%, US 4.5% (2015)
Imports - commodities: machinery and equipment, fuels, chemicals, semi-finished goods, foodstuffs, consumer goods, measuring and medical control instruments
Imports - partners: Germany 14.4%, France 11.7%, China 7.1%, Italy 6.5%, Netherlands 5%, UK 4.9% (2015)
Debt - external: $2.094 trillion (31 March 2016 est.) $1.963 trillion (31 March 2015 est.)
Market value of publicly traded shares: $787.2 billion (31 December 2015 est.) $992.9 billion (31 December 2014 est.) $1.117 trillion (31 December 2013 est.)
Exchange rates: euros (EUR) per US dollar - 0.9214 (2016 est.) 0.885 (2015 est.) 0.7525 (2014 est.) 0.7634 (2013 est.) 0.7752 (2012 est.)
Electricity - production: 264 billion kWh (2014 est.)
Electricity - installed generating capacity: 102.3 million kW (2014 est.)
Electricity - from fossil fuels: 43% of total installed capacity (2014 est.)
Electricity - from other renewable sources: 30% of total installed capacity (2014 est.)
Crude oil - production: 4,652 bbl/day (2015 est.)
Refined petroleum products - consumption: 1.241 million bbl/day (2015 est.)
Natural gas - production: 24 million cu m (2014 est.)
Natural gas - proved reserves: 2.548 billion cu m (1 January 2016 es)
Telephone system: general assessment: well-developed, modern facilities
domestic: combined fixed-line and mobile-cellular teledensity exceeds 145 telephones per 100 persons
international: country code - 34; submarine cables provide connectivity to Europe, Middle East, Asia, and US; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (1 Atlantic Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean), NA Eutelsat; tropospheric scatter to adjacent countries (2015)
Broadcast media: a mixture of both publicly operated and privately owned TV and radio stations; overall, hundreds of TV channels are available including national, regional, local, public, and international channels; satellite and cable TV systems available; multiple natio (2008)
Internet country code: .es
over 3,047 m: 18
Heliports: 10 (2013)
Pipelines: gas 10,481 km; oil 616 km; refined products 3,461 km (2013)
Railways: total: 16,101.5 km broad gauge: 11,873 km 1.668-m gauge (6,488 km electrified) standard gauge: 2,312 km 1.435-m gauge (2,312 km electrified)
narrow gauge: 1,884.9 km 1.000-m gauge (807 km electrified); 28 km 0.914-m gauge (28 km electrified); 3.6 km 0.600-m gauge (2014)
paved: 683,175 km (includes 16,205 km of expressways) (2011)
Waterways: 1,000 km (2012)
by type: bulk carrier 7, cargo 19, chemical tanker 8, container 5, liquefied gas 12, passenger/cargo 43, petroleum tanker 18, refrigerated cargo 4, roll on/roll off 9, vehicle carrier 7
foreign-owned: 27 (Canada 4, Germany 4, Italy 1, Mexico 1, Norway 10, Russia 6, Switzerland 1)
registered in other countries: 103 (Angola 1, Argentina 3, Bahamas 6, Brazil 12, Cabo Verde 1, Cyprus 6, Ireland 1, Malta 8, Morocco 9, Panama 30, Peru 1, Portugal 18, Uruguay 5, Venezuela 1, unknown 1) (2010)
Ports and terminals: major seaport(s): Algeciras, Barcelona, Bilbao, Cartagena, Huelva, Tarragona, Valencia (all in Spain); Las Palmas, Santa Cruz de Tenerife (in the Canary Islands) container port(s) (TEUs): Algeciras (3,608,301), Barcelona (2,033,747), Valencia (4,327,371); Las Palmas (1,287,389) LNG terminal(s) (import): Barcelona, Bilbao, Cartagena, Huelva, Mugardos, Sagunto
Military branches: Spanish Armed Forces: Army (Ejercito de Tierra), Spanish Navy (Armada Espanola, AE; includes Marine Corps), Spanish Air Force (Ejercito del Aire Espanola, EdA) (2013)
Military service age and obligation: 18-26 years of age for voluntary military service by a Spanish citizen or legal immigrant, 2-3 year obligation; women allowed to serve in all SAF branches, including combat units; no conscription, but Spanish Government retains right to mobilize citizens 19-25 years of age in a national emergency; mandatory retirement of non-NCO enlisted personnel at age 45 or 58, depending on service length (2013)
Military expenditures: 0.86% of GDP (2012) 0.95% of GDP (2011) 0.86% of GDP (2010)
Disputes - International: in 2002, Gibraltar residents voted overwhelmingly by referendum to reject any "shared sovereignty" arrangement; the Government of Gibraltar insists on equal participation in talks between the UK and Spain; Spain disapproves of UK plans to grant Gibraltar greater autonomy; Morocco protests Spain's control over the coastal enclaves of Ceuta, Melilla, and the islands of Penon de Velez de la Gomera, Penon de Alhucemas, and Islas Chafarinas, and surrounding waters; both countries claim Isla Perejil (Leila Island); Morocco serves as the primary launching site of illegal migration into Spain from North Africa; Portugal does not recognize Spanish sovereignty over the territory of Olivenza based on a difference of interpretation of the 1815 Congress of Vienna and the 1801 Treaty of Badajoz
stateless persons: 440 (2015) note: 14,661 estimated refugee and migrant arrivals (2015 - September 2016)
Illicit drugs: despite rigorous law enforcement efforts, North African, Latin American, Galician, and other European traffickers take advantage of Spain's long coastline to land large shipments of cocaine and hashish for distribution to the European market; consumer for Latin American cocaine and North African hashish; destination and minor transshipment point for Southwest Asian heroin; money-laundering site for Colombian narcotics trafficking organizations and organized crime
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Beyond the NegativeIt is unclear to me whether it were Henry Fox Talbot or Louis Daguerre, or possibly some other unnamed fellow who first transferred a positive image onto paper from a negative. 1906: Availability of panchromatic black and white film and therefore high quality color separation color photography. G+ #Read of the Day: The Daguerreotype - The daguerreotype, an early form of photograph, was invented by Louis Daguerre in the early 19th c.
The first photograph (1826) - Joseph Niepce, a French inventor and pioneer in photography, is generally credited with producing the first photograph. Easy Peasy Fact:Following Niepcea€™s experiments, in 1829 Louis Daguerre stepped up to make some improvements on a novel idea. Talbot was active from the mid-1830s, and sits alongside Louis Daguerre as one of the fathers of the medium. Niepcea€™s photograph shows a view from the Window at Le Gras, and it only took eight hours of exposure time!The history of photography has roots in remote antiquity with the discovery of the principle of the camera obscura and the observation that some substances are visibly altered by exposure to light. Again employing the use of solvents and metal plates as a canvas, Daguerre utilized a combination of silver and iodine to make a surface more sensitive to light, thereby taking less time to develop. Porta (1541-1615), a wise Neapolitan, was able to get the image of well-lighted objects through a small hole in one of the faces of a dark chamber; with a convergent lens over the enlarged hole, he noticed that the images got even clearer and sharper.
Though he is most famous for his contributions to photography, he was also an accomplished painter and a developer of the diorama theatre.
As far as is known, nobody thought of bringing these two phenomena together to capture camera images in permanent form until around 1800, when Thomas Wedgwood made the first reliably documented although unsuccessful attempt. Schulze mixes chalk, nitric acid, and silver in a flask; notices darkening on side of flask exposed to sunlight.
A daguerreotype, produced on a silver-plated copper sheet, produces a mirror image photograph of the exposed scene.
The alchemist Fabricio, more or less at the same period of time, observed that silver chloride was darkened by the action of light. Chemistry student Robert Cornelius was so fascinated by the chemical process involved in Daguerrea€™s work that he sought to make some improvements himself. It was only two hundred years later that the physicist Charles made the first photographic impression, by projecting the outlines of one of his pupils on a white paper sheet impregnated with silver chloride. It was commercially introduced in 1839, a date generally accepted as the birth year of practical photography.The metal-based daguerreotype process soon had some competition from the paper-based calotype negative and salt print processes invented by Henry Fox Talbot.
And in 1839 Cornelius shot a self-portrait daguerrotype that some historians believe was the first modern photograph of a man ever produced.
The photos were turned into lantern slides and projected in registration with the same color filters. In 1802, Wedgwood reproduced transparent drawings on a surface sensitized by silver nitrate and exposed to light.
Nicephore Niepce (1765-1833) had the idea of using as sensitive material the bitumen, which is altered and made insoluble by light, thus keeping the images obtained unaltered. Long before the first photographs were made, Chinese philosopher Mo Ti and Greek mathematicians Aristotle and Euclid described a pinhole camera in the 5th and 4th centuries BCE.
He communicated his experiences to Daguerre (1787-1851) who noticed that a iodide-covered silver plate - thedaguerreotype -, by exposition to iodine fumes, was impressed by the action of light action, and that the almost invisible alteration could be developed with the exposition to mercury fumes. In the 6th century CE, Byzantine mathematician Anthemius of Tralles used a type of camera obscura in his experimentsIbn al-Haytham (Alhazen) (965 in Basra a€“ c.
It was then fixed with a solution of potassium cyanide, which dissolves the unaltered iodine.The daguerreotype (1839) was the first practical solution for the problem of photography. In 1841, Claudet discovered quickening substances, thanks to which exposing times were shortened. More or less at the same time period, EnglishWilliam Henry Talbot substituted the steel daguerreotype with paper photographs (named calotype).
Wilhelm Homberg described how light darkened some chemicals (photochemical effect) in 1694. Niepce of Saint-Victor (1805-1870), Nicephorea€™s cousin, invented the photographic glass plate covered with a layer of albumin, sensitized by silver iodide. The novel Giphantie (by the French Tiphaigne de la Roche, 1729a€“74) described what could be interpreted as photography.Around the year 1800, Thomas Wedgwood made the first known attempt to capture the image in a camera obscura by means of a light-sensitive substance. Maddox and Benett, between 1871 and 1878, discovered the gelatine-bromide plate, as well as how to sensitize it. As with the bitumen process, the result appeared as a positive when it was suitably lit and viewed. A strong hot solution of common salt served to stabilize or fix the image by removing the remaining silver iodide. On 7 January 1839, this first complete practical photographic process was announced at a meeting of the French Academy of Sciences, and the news quickly spread. At first, all details of the process were withheld and specimens were shown only at Daguerre's studio, under his close supervision, to Academy members and other distinguished guests. Paper with a coating of silver iodide was exposed in the camera and developed into a translucent negative image.
Unlike a daguerreotype, which could only be copied by rephotographing it with a camera, a calotype negative could be used to make a large number of positive prints by simple contact printing. The calotype had yet another distinction compared to other early photographic processes, in that the finished product lacked fine clarity due to its translucent paper negative. This was seen as a positive attribute for portraits because it softened the appearance of the human face.
Talbot patented this process,[20] which greatly limited its adoption, and spent many years pressing lawsuits against alleged infringers. He attempted to enforce a very broad interpretation of his patent, earning himself the ill will of photographers who were using the related glass-based processes later introduced by other inventors, but he was eventually defeated.
Nonetheless, Talbot's developed-out silver halide negative process is the basic technology used by chemical film cameras today. Hippolyte Bayard had also developed a method of photography but delayed announcing it, and so was not recognized as its inventor.In 1839, John Herschel made the first glass negative, but his process was difficult to reproduce. The new formula was sold by the Platinotype Company in London as Sulpho-Pyrogallol Developer.Nineteenth-century experimentation with photographic processes frequently became proprietary.
This adaptation influenced the design of cameras for decades and is still found in use today in some professional cameras. Petersburg, Russia studio Levitsky would first propose the idea to artificially light subjects in a studio setting using electric lighting along with daylight. In 1884 George Eastman, of Rochester, New York, developed dry gel on paper, or film, to replace the photographic plate so that a photographer no longer needed to carry boxes of plates and toxic chemicals around.
Now anyone could take a photograph and leave the complex parts of the process to others, and photography became available for the mass-market in 1901 with the introduction of the Kodak Brownie.A practical means of color photography was sought from the very beginning.
Results were demonstrated by Edmond Becquerel as early as 1848, but exposures lasting for hours or days were required and the captured colors were so light-sensitive they would only bear very brief inspection in dim light.The first durable color photograph was a set of three black-and-white photographs taken through red, green and blue color filters and shown superimposed by using three projectors with similar filters. It was taken by Thomas Sutton in 1861 for use in a lecture by the Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell, who had proposed the method in 1855.[27] The photographic emulsions then in use were insensitive to most of the spectrum, so the result was very imperfect and the demonstration was soon forgotten. Maxwell's method is now most widely known through the early 20th century work of Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii. Included were methods for viewing a set of three color-filtered black-and-white photographs in color without having to project them, and for using them to make full-color prints on paper.[28]The first widely used method of color photography was the Autochrome plate, commercially introduced in 1907. If the individual filter elements were small enough, the three primary colors would blend together in the eye and produce the same additive color synthesis as the filtered projection of three separate photographs.
Autochrome plates had an integral mosaic filter layer composed of millions of dyed potato starch grains. Reversal processing was used to develop each plate into a transparent positive that could be viewed directly or projected with an ordinary projector. The mosaic filter layer absorbed about 90 percent of the light passing through, so a long exposure was required and a bright projection or viewing light was desirable. Competing screen plate products soon appeared and film-based versions were eventually made. A complex processing operation produced complementary cyan, magenta and yellow dye images in those layers, resulting in a subtractive color image. Kirsch at the National Institute of Standards and Technology developed a binary digital version of an existing technology, the wirephoto drum scanner, so that alphanumeric characters, diagrams, photographs and other graphics could be transferred into digital computer memory. The lab was working on the Picturephone and on the development of semiconductor bubble memory.
The essence of the design was the ability to transfer charge along the surface of a semiconductor. Michael Tompsett from Bell Labs however, who discovered that the CCD could be used as an imaging sensor.
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A soft-cover book entitled “History of the Association 1932 – 1999” was published by the late William Macy Miller Jr., K1IBR at the turn of the century. Thanks to SEMARA member Timothy R. Smith, N1TI, we are in possession of the Microsoft Publisher master files. With some dedication and hard work, we hope to convert this book to an enjoyable digital reading experience in its entirety right here on our website – stay tuned! In the meantime, please enjoy a very brief history of our association.
The club began in November of 1932. Alan Cooper, W1HSR, announced the formation of the New Bedford Shortwave Radio Club (NBSWC) in the local newspaper. Initial meetings were held in his house at 27 Willard Street in the south end of New Bedford, and later in the City Mission on First Street.
In 1935, the club changed its name to the New Bedford Amateur Radio Association (NBARA) and began meeting in the cellar of the Ware Radio store at 813 County Street (Southwest corner of Austin Street). The owner of the store charged no rent. In 1936 the club met in a small storefront building at 165 Summer Street. The club also secured its own call letters, W1IXF.
In 1937, the club affiliated with the ARRL. From 1937 to 1940 the club met at 47 Sidney Street. Formal club activity ceased during World War II. However, members did meet informally and infrequently in George Augustine’s, W1KHV, “shack” on Jenkins Street.
In 1947, formal meetings resumed. The name of the club was changed to the “Southeastern Massachusetts Amateur Radio Association” (SEMARA) to more closely reflect the area from which its members came. The club also affiliated with the ARRL under this new name in 1947. They met at the WMCA on 6th Street in downtown New Bedford until 1950.
In 1950, the club affiliated with Civil Defense, and began meeting in the Warming House at Buttonwood Park. An antenna was strung from the Warming House to the island in the center of the skating pond. In 1953 the club moved to the northeast corner of Blackmer and South Second Street.
Finally in 1955, the club bought 3 acres of land at the present location (54 Donald Street) in Dartmouth, MA. The initial purchase was by way of a trust setup by three members. The club was at the end of a dirt road on land that was used as a town dump for many years. The original Quonset hut clubhouse formally was a restaurant called “Wally’s Hut” on Rockdale Avenue just east of Dartmouth Street. It cost more to move it than to buy it!
In 1955, the membership voted to change the club’s call to W1AEC in memory of member Kenneth Dyer who died at sea in 1950 when the scalloper “Four Sisters” sunk. The club uses that memorial call to this day.
In 1958, the club incorporated in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as a non-profit organization, and purchased the land and clubhouse from the three trustees.
In 1965, the club newsletter ZERO BEAT began publication.
In June of 1974, the club put a two meter repeater (WR1ADR) on the air from Dick Hay’s (W1LE) house on Smith Neck Road in Dartmouth. A 100 foot high repeater tower was erected on club property the fall of same year to host a new repeater being built. The new repeater would have a feature all the members wanted: autopatch!
In the spring of 1975, the new club repeater went on the air from the club’s property. The original tower proved to be inadequate for the coverage desired. The tower was therefore extended to a height of 160 feet in the fall of 1975.
In 1977, the membership built a new meeting hall in front of the old Quonset hut.
In 1999, the 160 foot tower was replaced with a 180 foot communications tower in the woods to the rear of the property under a lease agreement with NETCOM, Inc.
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Blog Posts by Badema Pitic
Aprils in Sarajevo
On this day, 27 years ago, my city of Sarajevo became a besieged city, and remained such for the following four years. A seven-year old at the time, I remember those first days of April of 1992 well. On one of them, my family’s Yugo 45 – an iconic car model of the former Yugoslavia – broke down right next to the Kasarna Maršala Tita (military barracks), where the U.S. Embassy is located today. Without a car, we could not go home that night, so we returned to my grandparents’ house.
About Badema Pitic
Tue, 02/06/2018 - 10:09am -- martha.stroud
Badema Pitic is the Visual History Archive Program Coordinator at the Center for Advanced Genocide Research. Badema earned her PhD in Ethnomusicology from UCLA in 2017. She worked as a Curator at the Department of Ethnology of the National Museum of Bosnia-Herzegovina, and obtained her BA and MA in Ethnomusicology from the University of Sarajevo before moving to the United States. Prior to her appointment at the Center, Badema worked as a Lecturer at the California Institute of the Arts, and was also a publications coordinator for the UCLA Ethnomusicology Publications and an archive assistant at the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive. Badema’s research focuses on the intersections of music, memory, and politics in the aftermath of war and genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
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Tennis superstar Li Na announces her retirement on social media
by Shanghaiist
The wonderful Li Na, China’s first and only Grand Slam winner, announced that she’s throwing in the towel for good today in a letter posted on social media, citing worsening knee problems as the main reason.
“Representing China on the tennis court was an extraordinary privilege and a true honor,” she wrote to her fans in a letter published on Facebook and Weibo this morning. “But in sport, just like in life, all great things must come to an end.”
The 32-year-old tennis star explained that she’d been coping with chronic knee problems throughout her career and after four surgeries and hundreds of injections to help ease the pain, “my body is begging me to stop the pounding.”
Li said that coming back from her most recent surgery, “it felt different”.
“As hard as I tried to get back to being 100%, my body kept telling me that, at 32, I will not be able to compete at the top level ever again. The sport is just too competitive, too good, to not be 100%.”
Li won her, and China’s, first Grand Slam title at the 2011 French Open and bagged her second Grand Slam victory at the Australian Open this past January (prompting a brilliant speech afterwards).
The Wuhan-native has experienced a somewhat complicated relationship with her home country. Her success came after she detached herself from the state-run sports system, and she’s dually applauded by the Chinese media for her accomplishments and chastised for being unpatriotic and “capricious“.
We imagine she’ll be resting that knee comfortably on her bountiful piles of wealth.
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www.sciencecityyork.org.uk
Science progress in York
York is the heartbeat of the North of England, with not only a fabulous heritage, beautiful architecture and an excellent transport network, but also a booming economy with an extensive Science Park. The city's a founding National Science City and home to more than 7,500 businesses, from international to domestic industries, including young, pioneering companies and global research giants. York Science Park together with other business parks around the city have provided a base for developing companies to set up, grow and flourish.
In the last decade, £800 million has been poured into developing science and technology in York, which now boasts more than 500 businesses operating in these fields. Much of York’s scientific success has its roots in the University of York and York St John University, which carry out extensive scientific research and support businesses locally, nationally and internationally. York therefore offers businesses great potential for growth through collaborative working with highly skilled, qualified and innovative scientists, including experts in healthcare, medical research, biosciences, biorenewables and environmental science.
York’s science specialism dates back to 1998, when Science City York was founded in a bid to develop the economy by creating opportunities for jobs and greater affluence. The latest injection of cash into the blossoming science industry was £168,000 for businesses in the science sector. This came from reserves generated by Science City York, now called Make It York. The funds will help businesses in science, IT and digital and creative technologies.
Make It York is run by the City of York Council, with the aim of promoting not just science but other areas of business too. This integrated approach will benefit York's economy no end. Make It York won't take their eye off the ball in terms of the continued growth of the city's science sector, with funding readily available for new businesses. There's a concentration of many science and technology specialists in York, which is encouraging new businesses to come and set up there.
York's flourishing scientific community is supported by the two universities, with some of the best science departments and research centres in the world, including approximately 90 researchers spread across specialist institutes and centres. In 2011, HSBC’s Future of Business Report said that York was becoming a leading centre for health and medicine, thanks to leading research into diseases such as malaria, HIV/AIDS, cystic fibrosis and cancer. Biorenewable resources are also emerging industry and university researchers regularly collaborate with national and international industries such as Drax Power Station and Unilever.
The science sector is hugely important for York, with a wealth of diverse businesses and fantastic job opportunities. York has become something of a science mecca, continually delivering high value and highly skilled jobs to the top scientists in the world. In the first decade of the 21st century, York gained 80 new tech companies and 2,800 new jobs, boosting the economy and driving people towards the city. Proof of this can be seen in York ranking as one of the top performing cities in the UK, with employment rising, unemployment falling and low levels of inequality. In addition, York ranks in the top ten cities with the lowest number of people without formal qualifications. The success of developing science and technology in York is clearly benefiting the city's economy and encouraging people to come to live and work in this incredible place.
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Open access to scientific journals on culture and society
February 7, 2014 - 06:46 - Source: Read the full story at the Research Council of Norway
The Research Council of Norway is seeking to make the most recent findings in social science and the humanities easily accessible to all interested parties. To achieve this, changes are being made to the funding scheme for publication of journals.
The Research Council provides funding for the publication of 40 national journals within social science and the humanities, most of which are in Norwegian. Starting in 2017, after a three-year transition period, journals will be required to employ Open Access publishing to be qualified for support. This will entail that articles must be made openly accessible on the Internet without delay.
“National journals in social science and the humanities have great potential to strengthen the foundation for public debate here in Norway. Their articles about Norwegian culture and society can bring valuable knowledge and new perspectives into the public domain. Securing open access to these publications will be of great importance both within and outside the research community,” says Arvid Hallén, Director General of the Research Council of Norway.
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Successful international conference on population dynamics (Read the full story at the Research Council of Norway)
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R.A.C. Encyclopedia - part 11
The 4-Skins
The 4-Skins are a working class Oi! band from East London, England. Originally composed of Gary Hodges on vocals, 'Hoxton' Tom McCourt on guitar, Steve 'H' Hamer on bass and Gary Hitchcock on drums, they formed in 1979 and by 1984 had broke up. Although new line-ups formed in 2007 and 2008. Initially the band members had known each other from football, or from following bands such as Sham 69 and Menace. Most of the original four band members were or had been skinheads. Hence the name. However, Steve Pear had a rockabilly style, and Hoxton Tom McCourt was a suedehead.
The first line up was Hoxton Tom McCourt on guitar, Gary Hodges on vocals, Steve H Harmer on bass and Gary Hitchcock on drums. This lasted from 1979 to 1980 and in 1980 to 1981 saw Steve H Harmer replaced on guitar by Steve Pear and Gary Hitchcock replaced on drums by John Jacobs. From 1981 to 1983 Tony (Panther) Cummins took over vocals and Pete Abbot came in on drums. This line up was used for the 1982 LP The Good, The Bad and The 4 Skins.
The last early days line up from 1983 to 1984 was Hoxton Tom on bass, Roi Pearce on vocals, Paul Swain on guitar, and Ian Bramson on drums. This line up was on the From Chaos to 1984 album.
The 2007 line up was Gary Hodges on vocals, Steve H Harmer on bass, with Mick Geggus on guitar and Andy Russell on drums. The following year in 2008, the line up had changed to Graham Bacon on bass, Tom Brennan on guitar and Sedge Swatton on drums.
Prior to the release of the band's debut single, One Law For Them, The 4-Skins contributed songs to the first three Oi! compilation albums, alongside bands such asCockney Rejects, Cock Sparrer, and The Business. The 4-Skins went through many personnel changes during their five-year existence, with only bassist/songwriter 'Hoxton' Tom McCourt being present in every line-up of the band. Other former members include Roi Pearce, who was also the frontman of The Last Resort, and Paul Swain, a guitarist who later joined Skrewdriver.
In 2007, the band reformed with two original members, lead singer Gary Hodges and bassist Steve 'H' Harmer, plus guitarist Mick Geggus and drummer Andy Russell of Cockney Rejects. This line-up recorded two songs, Chaos 2007 and Glory Days for the compilation album Kings Of Streetpunk, released by the independent record label G&R London.
2008 saw Hodges form a new version of the band under the name Gary Hodges' 4-Skins, featuring Indecent Exposure members Tom Brennan on guitar, Graham Bacon on and Sedge Swatton on drums. This line-up played three gigs In Berlin at the Punk and Disorderly festival, in Allentown, PA at the East Coast Oi Fest and as the headlining act on the final day of the Blackpool Rebellion punk festival in August 2008. Two newly-recorded tracks were also released for free on The 4-Skins' official web page. Both were covers of Slade songs – Cum on Feel the Noize and Thanks for the Memories. Following this, the band decided to continue recording and touring.
On 4 April 2010, they released a studio album, The Return, on German label, Randale Records.
Hemel Hempstead based Oi! band, formed in January 1984. The original line-up was Steve Reeve vocals, Tom Brennan on guitar, Colin Wright on bass and Sedge Swatton on drums. After a few practice sessions it was agreed that Wright was hopeless and he left. Tom Brennan switched to bass and Graham Bacon joined on guitar. They changed their name to The Real McCoy after being told that someone else were already using the name Indecent Exposure, but reverted back to Indecent Exposure when they found this to be false.
In 1984 they issued a seven-track tape and a 7” single, 'Riots', on their own label, Index Products. In March '85 they headlined a gig in Rotterdam, Holland, alongside Condemned 84 and Public Enemy, in which the second part of their set was as a five-piece, with Paul Swain, ex-4-Skins, on second guitar. In 1985 they released their debut album, 'Reveal All' on Rock-O-Rama Records, which had guitar contributions on one track from Paul Swain (Skrewdriver and 4-Skins) and was produced by Mark Sutherland. Rock-O-Rama asked them to change some lyrics on 'Reveal All' In particular the ones to 'England My England'. A line in the song went “England my England we are white forever” the line was changed to “England my England, we are right forever”. The band also played in Germany and Sweden. In 1986 they released their second album 'No Looking Back' on Rock-O-Rama, it was more rock sounding than their debut album and it had guitar contributions on one track from Richie, of Straight Up.
By late '86 the Oi! scene has seem to split between the far right and the left, it was turning ugly. That same year singer Milky got into a fight before a gig with some political skin and told him to fuck off due to his politics. Indecent Exposure continued to played the show, and after a few songs that same skin that Milky had an argument threw a bottle to his face and split him. Indecent continued playing their set till after they were done he jumped into the crowed looking for the asshole who threw the bottle at him, but he seemed to run away.
In 1987 Brennan moved to lead guitar and Dave Martin, ex-Tenpole Tudor, came in on bass, whilst Steve's brother occasionally helped on drums. They played their final gig in February '87 then split up.
The Ovaltinees
Originally formed in 1979 under the name White Youth the band featured members who went on to more recently form Eye Of Odin. At their first gig the band found difficulty booking a venue because of their name - White Youth. After recruiting a new bass player and guitarist they settled on the new name The Ovaltinees.
They were the first skinhead band to take on a hardcore National socialist stance and so are regarded as the earliest of the RAC bands. At the start the Ovaltinees played regularly supporting Oi! bands in London at the 100 Club, Skunx, Gossips, and the Red Lion.
Between 1980 and 1982 the band recieved offers from musical papers, managers, and record companies, all with the hope the band would drop their political stances, but the band had no intention of selling out. In 1982 they recorded a 10-track demo. 1982 also saw the rebirth of RAC and on 2nd April 1982 in Stratford, East London the first RAC concert was held since 1979. Featuring The Ovaltinees alongside Skrewdriver and Peter & The Wolf with some 500 skinheads.
Come 1983 the band released their EP British Justice containing four tracks. The line up for this release was Mick on vocals, G on drums, Billy on guitar and Dog Bone Idol on bass. This was credited as being the first RAC record just beating Skrewdriver's White Power EP which appeared shortly after. The Ovaltinees continued playing live RAC gigs with The Wolf, The Die-Hards, until late 1983 when the bands bassist and guitarist left the band. Attempts were made to finde replacements but without success and the band called it a day in 1984.
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Home Newswire Brexit, Free Ports and the super-exploitation of the working class
Brexit, Free Ports and the super-exploitation of the working class
Feb 5, 2019: 3:06 am
Boris Johnson, the leading Brexiteer and former foreign secretary, spoke last month at an event organised by Lord Bamford, the billionaire chief executive of earth moving equipment manufacturer JCB. Johnson reportedly earned £10,000 for his grovelling speech, littered with droll references to JCB’s products.
His remarks were directed towards sections of the ruling elite who might back a Johnson Conservative Party leadership bid. His appeal promoted regional economic competition and deregulation as the bedrock of a post-Brexit economy.
The government “should be devolving power to cities in coherent regions,” he said, including bundling together local taxes such as “council tax, business rates stamp duty, land tax” to give to “local mayors and politicians to spend so that they have clear incentives to go for growth.”
Johnson called for the creation of Free Ports, pointing that “there are now 135 countries in the world that have Free Ports.” These attract growth “and it is absurd that Britain will be forbidden by this deal [Theresa May’s European Union (EU) Withdrawal Agreement] from doing the same.”
Free Ports are better known as Free Trade Zones (FTZ) or Special Economic Zones (SEZ). The last three decades have seen hundreds of such zones proliferate worldwide, particularly in the Indian subcontinent, South East Asia and China. The zones have become synonymous with the unbridled exploitation of the working class.
In floating Free Ports in Britain, Johnson is speaking to a discussion within both the Conservative and Labour parties on how best to use the Brexit crisis to complete the deregulation of the economy and slash the wages and conditions of…
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Professor Kevin Jones
Jones Sensei's Comment
I didn't want this section here at all! However, others insisted that it should be here. I then offered to write it myself. It would look like:
I wandered into an Aikido dojo quite a while back when I was young and stupid;
As time went by, I became somewhat less young; Since I was lucky enough to find great teachers, repeated thumps to the head made me (marginally) less stupid I now try to pass on this great gift to others, albeit with less skill at judicious thumping than my teachers had.
Seems good enough to me - but, again, others insisted and you get what comes below. I had to promise to not edit this in any way ... (well, I agreed to "not too much" at least - and so if the following section vanishes at any time, you'll know I slipped with a delete key :-))
Kevin Jones-sensei was born in the Rhondda Valley in South Wales. Educated at the Universities of Reading, Oxford, and Manchester he holds a Doctorate in Computer Science. He is, by nature and culture, reserved and private yet he will gladly talk at length about the practice of Aikido.
Early Encounters with Aikido
Jones-sensei's first encounter with Aikido occurred when he wandered into a dojo in Pentre, Wales. This was the Aikikai of Wales headed by Sensei Kenneth Williams. At the time, Jones-sensei was 10 years old. Although he did not have the means to attend regular classes then, he would continue to attend the dojo's promotional classes or an occasional class over the next 6 years. Fascinated by martial arts, during this time he trained in judo, karate, and kung fu. These had the advantage of being affordable but never intrigued him as Aikido had done. At age 16 he was able to take a part-time job which would pay for his mat fees at the dojo and he became a full-time student under Sensei Williams. "Full-time" meant getting up every day at 4 a.m. to complete his job before going to school. Evenings were spent at the dojo 6-7 times a week, often not leaving until 11-12 p.m.
Shin-shin Toitsu Aikido
In 1977, Sensei Williams met with Tohei-sensei and became a member of Ki No Kenkyukai. This style of training allowed Jones-sensei to look at Aikido from a new perspective. His practice under Sensei Williams continued even after he went to university. Weekly private lessons meant driving 200 miles each way for a 3-hour class with Sensei Williams and his assistant. He also volunteered to teach classes at a university Aikido club. Eventually he opened his own dojo in Manchester. During his University days, Jones-sensei practiced in many dojo. He spent about 3 years in an Iwama influenced school, spent some time at the dojo of the Chief Instructor of the Aikikai in Great Britain and spent shorter periods with a number of diverse teachers. This exposure to many different approaches helped to broaden his perspective on the art of Aikido.
Building a Dojo
After practicing in rented space during odd hours in a local Jujutsu school for a while, the dojo determined to establish a permanent location. Initially this was in the upstairs of an abandoned mill - so cold in winter that there was literally ice on the mat. Eventually this site was condemned, the entry boarded up and the electricity turned off - but the club continued to practice there for 6 more months. As one very stalwart member recalls joining the dojo during that time "I couldn't even see what we were doing for the first 6 months!". Eventually, the dojo moved to another site, which they worked diligently to fix up only to have the roof collapse after a week's practice. Thereafter, the club continued practicing in a sports center in Manchester.
When Sensei Williams separated from Ki No Kenkyukai in 1986 to re-establish the Ki Federation, Jones-sensei and his dojo remained with the Ki Society. In October 1989 Jones-sensei moved to the United States and began teaching Aikido classes in a Tae Kwon Do studio in Newark, California. Mission Peak Ki Society was formed as an official branch of Ki No Kenkyukai in February, 1990. Classes in the Tae Kwon Do studio are most remembered for the lack of a mat. After 9 months a mat was obtained as well as a new location in the back of a chiropractor's office. Jones-sensei continued to aim for a permanent dojo and this was achieved in January 1992 when we transformed an ordinary commercial building space into a living, breathing dojo with a permanent mat, changing rooms and an office. More classes were offerred and in January 1995, having outgrown the space, we moved into a larger dojo.
Ki Aikido
With this move came a new affiliation and a name change. Upon moving to the U.S., Jones-sensei found a large Ki Society organization in place. What he did not find was a teacher. In September 1994, a singular event occurred. Sensei Williams visited the U.S. and gave a seminar in Los Angeles for 4 days. Attending the seminar, Jones-sensei re-established his relationship with Sensei Williams and affiliated his dojo with the Ki Federation. Mission Peak Ki Society became The Ki Aikido Center of Northern California.
After two years of practicing in the larger dojo, circumstances changed. Enrollment had dropped off a bit, and it became necessary to look for a different practice site. The dojo began practicing at the League of Volunteers (LoV) hall in Newark, California. It was obvious from the start that this was a temporary measure, as the smell of cigarette smoke, the large bingo board on the wall, and the somewhat loud "swing" music from one of the other rooms made every practice an adventure. During this time, a private dojo was built in Jones-sensei's home, and the dojo began to hold some practices there. Eventually, it was decided to practice exclusively in the private dojo, and to look for another means of maintaining a public presence. It was decided that the dojo would try to get an Aikido club going at the local university, while continuing to hold some practices at the private dojo. In September of 1999, the Aikido Club at California State University, Hayward, was formed. During this period of time, another significant event took place. For a variety of reasons, Jones-sensei made the decision that the Ki Aikido Center of Northern California would become an independent dojo, with no affiliation to any larger organization.
In September of 2000, a significant event took place: A summer school was held in honor of Jones-sensei's 30 years of Aikido practice and 10 years in the U.S. This became known as the "10/30" and was to be the inception of something special. Shortly thereafter, one of Jones-sensei's senior students moved to Colorado and started a dojo there. Then another student moved to Oregon and began to put a dojo together as well. Seeing this, and realizing that he had students running dojo in England and Saudi Arabia as well, he realized that this group of dojo needed its own identity. The following year, another summer school was held in Sacramento, and it was during this watershed event that Jones-sensei unveiled the teaching structure which now makes Shugenkai Aikido unique, a teaching structure based on the elements of earth, water, air, and fire. It was becoming more and more clear that this extended family of dojo had something special, and needed a new name to go along with its unique style of Aikido practice. In 2002, after much consideration, the group adopted the name, "Shugenkai"
Koretoshi Maruyama Sensei
In 2004, Jones-sensei was able to reconnect with Master Koretoshi Maruyama after many years of being unable to contact him. Jones-sensei is now honored to once again call this Maruyama-sensei his teacher.
Jones-sensei's dedication and level of practice are inspirational to his students. He seems to have retained the fascination and enthusiasm for his art that he felt so long ago as that small boy wandering into a dojo and he combines that with a sincerity and respect for the budo which he strives to practice in his daily life. Jones-sensei admits that the way he teaches changes day to day, person to person. "People come into the dojo for all kinds of reasons, people stay in the dojo because they want to change themselves, people train for a long time because they see the change happening" Jones-Sensei does not get paid for teaching Aikido, Shugenkai is a non-profit organization. He believes that receiving payment would make it a business and necessarily change his attitude toward the students. He believes he was given a lot as a student and now he can give some of that back, and he has instilled those same values in the hearts of his students who are now running dojo of their own.
Thank you Sensei :-)
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The Woolly Bandits Join 80/20 Records With A New EP!!!
Mitchell L. Hillman
– October 14, 2014Posted in: Album Reviews, Extended Play, General
The Woolly Bandits from Los Angeles have now become the fifth artist to join 80/20 Records roster and to celebrate they have released a furiously paced six song EP to celebrate this! Joining labelmates Captain Squeegee, Fairy Bones, Zero Zero and Statues of Cats (also from LA) they add another definitive layer of exciting Garage Rock to the growing local label. I recently caught The Woolly Bandits at the Lowview Magazine release party and they happened to let it slip that they had just joined 80/20 Records and I was pretty much beyond excited. They are a great band (it was my third time catching their live act) and they are a perfect match for the label which features five of the most wonderful acts in the Universe right now. The Woolly Bandits are certainly no stranger to Arizona and they play here with a fair amount of frequency, I’m hoping that they play here more often with this partnership now in tow and I certainly wouldn’t mind an 80/20 Records Showcase in the near future, because the entire roster rocks and it would be an amazing musical evening. Sure, 80/20 Records may only have five artists on their label, but I’m pretty sure that it’s the only label around where I can say that I love every single one of them, including the newest addition.
The band itself has a very rich and intense history, right down to the roots of the garage rock aesthetic–The Seeds. It all began with the legendary 60’s group The Seeds, when original front man Sky Saxon joined up with Rik Collins. While touring fans and industry types wanted to know who the younger band was backing Sky, Rik along with guitarist Mark Bellgraph decided to start The Woolly Bandits. Christa Collins joined The Woolly Bandits in 2007, she had not performed since a guest appearance on Michael Jackson’s “Heal the World” in 1991. It turns out that she was Disney’s first recording artist and the prototype for the child music star (Christa Larson – Minnie and Me), her career was on a trajectory for stardom until tragedy struck. While on tour in Australia supporting her new CD, Christa’s mother, Denice, was killed by a hit-and-run driver. More recently Christa made a big impression on the commercial music world with her appearance on season 1 of X Factor. After several national and international tours she has preformed with the likes of Little Richard, Iggy Pop, Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins, The Damned, and many more. With that in mind, this is a hell of a combination of talents under one umbrella.
Photo by Click Chick Photography
And now The Woolly Bandits have a brand new EP on 80/20 Records and it’s magnificent. You have to be a high energy band to slam six songs into just under 15 minutes and that’s exactly what they’ve done here. Christa Collins is on vocals and tamborine, Rik Collins is on bass and backing vocals, Mark Bellgraph is on guitar and backing vocals, and Tom Sanford is on drums here. Add to that, one Nicole Laurenne (Zero Zero, Love Me Nots, Motobunny) on Farfisa organ and you have a pretty amazing array of talents that will rock your world. With the intense opener of “Last Night” that clocks in at just under two minutes, you are immediately drawn into the breakneck speed and shotgun delivery of The Woolly Bandits at their best, whether it is Collins rapid fire vocals or Bellgraph’s searing guitar, it’s damn difficult to resist this song–a perfect salvo to an EP that never lets up once. “What Are You All About” sounds like it should be the soundtrack for driving around LA or Phoenix or Las Vegas in a cherry classic car, with the top town and your Wayfarers on, wind in your hair. There is a subconscious sense of predatory darkness found in this song, Collins sounds like she is stalking prey in search of something or someone she has to know. The results are electrifying. With “Let Me Know”, Sanford’s pounding drums introduce the feeling and its one of the few songs that border on a pop aesthetic, the closest they come to head bopping fun–part of that is due to the Farfisa being way up in the mix. It’s like they are covering an early Blondie track, except that it’s completely original and has no new wave tainting.
“Don’t Want You Around” has a great rockabilly groove and Rik Collins is really in the spotlight here with his fantastic bass groove. This is one of my favorite tracks on the entire affair, mainly because of the crazed way it takes off a minute in with wild guitar madness. This should be in consideration for a single if it isn’t already, because it’s so hook heavy and addictive, I imagine people will be carrying it in their mind for weeks or months to come. On “Hard To Forget You”, Christa Collins approaches the vocals with a sultry swing unlike anything else found here, the harmonies loom brilliantly behind here, the guitar is a wild sensation and the whole thing comes down to a damn sexy number. The organ drives into pure frenzy at just the right moment, followed by a perfect drum solo, then each instrument steps in and brings it all back home. I decided after about the fifth listen to the EP that a 45 of “Don’t Want You Around” b/w “Hard To Forget You” would be a perfect old school single in every way. The finale of “Without You” caps off this entire affair perfectly, heavy on the fuzz, the great rhythm groove and tricky beat, it’s a head turner and one that get’s you moving in your seat. Once more a slightly different vocal style for Christa, it becomes evident across this EP that she has a hell of a depth in talent and delivery. The explosive build up to the final crescendo is worth every second, you are left starry eyed and stunned at how much excellence has occurred in your ears for the last fifteen minutes. There is nothing lacking here. Each song is its own universe of garage rock perfection and the talents of everyone involved are showcased brilliantly. Keep an eye on The Woolly Bandits, I certainly hope this EP is only the preview of another great full length album soon to come, because I want more. Give it a listen below, if you love garage rock, your going to dig the holy hell out of this!
The Woolly Bandits EP by The Woolly Bandits
Check Out 80/20 Records Here!!!
Tags: 80/20 Records, Christa Collins, Nicole Laurenne, The Seeds, The Woolly Bandits
Posted October 22, 2014 at 2:52 PM
Just listened to the album posted. Love their music! But they are so amazing live!!! I recommend going to their shows. I have seen several of their shows and did photography for some of those shows. The band definitely has the 60′s feel and front woman Crista is very interactive with the crowd. Definitely a very fun night when you go out to see them!!
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Is the ice complex an outdoor rink?
The Howelsen Ice Complex is an indoor rink.
1. Is the ice complex an outdoor rink?
2. How thick is the ice in a typical rink?
In most arenas, the ice is kept between 1" to 1.5" thick. The goal is to find a depth that is deep enough to handle the number and weight of skaters and yet thin enough to keep the electrical consumption at a minimum. The thicker the ice surface, the harder the refrigeration system has to work to keep the ice frozen. In most arenas, the ice thickness is checked on a regular basis by using a cordless drill and tape measure. By checking at various locations throughout the arena floor and writing the information on a chart, it will help the arena staff know where to reduce or increase the ice thickness. This is usually done at least once per week.
3. What is the usual temperature of the ice?
The temperature of the ice varies from one facility to the next depending upon several factors: the temperature of the building, the insulation of the building, the outside temperature, how many people are in the building, who might be using the ice, etc. The ideal temperature of the interface between the ice surface and the air is 26°F. At that temperature, friction between skate blades and the ice surface is the least. However, after a resurface the ice might take longer to freeze and reach that temperature so the complex manager may set the refrigeration equipment to produce a lower ice temperature. Most arenas will have the ice temperature around 16° - 24°F for hockey with the ice temperature a little higher if being used only for figure skaters.
4. How many gallons of water are needed to make 1 inch of ice?
The normal rink is 85' x 200' which is equal to 17,000 square feet. This is a typical NHL size rink and would require 11,000 gallons of water to make 1" of ice. Howelsen Ice Complex is an Olympic-size rink at 100' x 200' and is 20,000 square feet so it would require 13,000 gallons of water to make 1" of ice.
5. Why does the ice take longer to freeze during a high school game?
There can be many reasons. Generally during a high school game there are many people in the building and more heat is being produced for the comfort of the spectators. There is also additional resurfacing of the ice taking place. The combination of these factors puts additional heat loads on the refrigeration system. Therefore it takes more time and energy to freeze the water to make a good ice surface.
6. How are the logos installed in the ice?
There are several different methods used to install logos onto the ice surface. One way is to use a special type of paint and apply it with a paint brush. In this case, a template similar to a stencil may be used to outline the logo and then color in the various parts. Another method of installing a logo is to use canvas or other fabrics with the design already on and apply it to the ice. These logos are usually put onto the ice when it is 1/4" or 1/2" thick and slowly the logo is covered with a fine mist. Then the remainder of the ice is installed up to the desired 1" thickness.
7. What are the different types of resurfacers?
There are two major manufacturers of the ice resurfacer: Zamboni and Olympia. Each manufacturer provides a variety of machines with different types of fuel or power. The newest technology involves the use of batteries or fuel cells. Some other sources of power are compressed natural gas, liquid propane and gasoline. Most gasoline power resurfacers are used outdoors. There are at least two arenas in Minnesota in which the resurfacer is powered by a long electric cord.
8. Why doesn't the ice resurfacer slip and slide all over the ice?
The ice resurfacer tires are equipped with studs to keep the machine from sliding into the boards. With proper training, the driver will learn how to maintain a safe and effective speed to keep the machine under control at all times.
9. How does the ice resurfacer work?
Ice resurfacers are designed to do several things at the same time as the machine is driven over the ice. There is a sharp blade that shaves the ice. These shavings are moved by a horizontal auger to the center of the conditioner and then lifted up into the snow tank by a vertical auger. There are two separate tanks of water on the resurfacer. The wash water tank allows water to enter the ice surface in front of a squeegee which makes slush with the shavings to help wash the ice and fill in the deep gouges. This wash water is recycled by being vacuumed up, filtered and then returned to the wash water tank. The other tank is for ice-making and is visible during the resurface. This water comes out just behind the conditioner and is spread onto the ice surface by a towel. The original ice resurfacer was invented by Frank Zamboni of California in 1949.
10. How often is the resurfacer blade changed?
The resurfacer blade is over six feet long and needs to be sharp to insure a quality ice sheet. It is located behind the horizontal auger just in front of the squeegee and is bolted onto the conditioner. At most facilities, the blade is changed once a week at the same time that other maintenance is performed on the resurfacer. The resurfacer blade is extremely sharp so it must be changed with caution.
11. Why can't players and coaches be on the ice during a resurface?
Driving the resurfacer requires the full attention of the driver. For the safety of the users and staff, The Howeslen Ice Complex does not allow anyone on the ice while the resurfacer is in operation.
12. Why are the nets moved from the goal area of the rink during the ice resurface?
At most facilities, the nets should be moved by the users who have just finished their hour of ice time. Most drivers prefer that the nets be placed along the side boards. If the nets are placed at the end boards it is difficult for the operator to manuever. Also most locations prefer that the nets be tipped up at an angle and rested on the side boards to prevent slush and snow on the bottom of the net from freezing to the ice.
13. What is the machine that is used along the boards and resembles a lawn mower?
This machine is called an ice edger and it is used to help keep the ice sheet level. The ice resurfacer does not shave the ice any closer than 2-3 inches from the boards. This causes the ice to build up along this area. Also as the driver slows down in the corners, more water is deposited and the ice builds up higher in the corners. The purpose of the ice edger is to shave the ice about 6-8 inches from the boards, making a level surface. Then the left edge of the conditioner can rest on this surface and the thicker areas of the ice are shaved down by the resurfacer.
14. Why does the dasher board glass break into tiny pieces at some arenas and at others it will just crack and not shatter?
An arena will usually use either tempered glass or plexiglass (acrylic) for their dasher board glass. The tempered glass is much heavier and more resistant to scratches. However when it breaks, it will shatter into thousands of pieces. The plexiglass is much lighter and is more subject to scratches but when it starts to break will first form tiny cracks. Eventually a piece might break off but there will not be the shattering as in tempered glass.
15. Why are some ice complexes colder than others?
The temperature inside the ice complex depends upon the heating abilities of the facility, the insulation of the building and what works best for the refrigeration system of that facility. A building with a higher air temperature will put more stress on the refrigeration system, causing it to run longer or at a heavier load with greater expense. The ideal air temperature and humidity in an arena is about 50°F with 50% humidity. Some arenas do not use any dehumidification. Therefore it will "feel" colder because of the higher humidity in the air.
16. What are some of the activities held at the Howelsen Ice Complex?
The complex offer various public sessions including public skating, open hockey, bumper cars on ice, and learn-to-skate programs. Additional activities include youth hockey, high school hockey, adult hockey, figure skating, broomball. Private rental of the ice is also available.
17. What are Bumper Cars On Ice?
The bumper cars are basically a big rubber tube, with a seat in the middle that glides across the ice allowing you to take control using the handles on each side and crash into other bumper cars on the ice.
Each car is battery powered and contains small wheels on the bottom of the car that allow it to drive over the ice surface. The car is controlled by two handles on each side and allow the driver to move the car, forwards, backwards, sideways or perform a 360 degree rapid spin! The cars are all controlled by a remote control from the staff member in charge.
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SPILL FEATURE: WILLIAM PRINCE TALKS JUNO WEEKEND, THE STRESSES OF TOURING AWAY FROM FAMILY, AND MORE – A CONVERSATION WITH WILLIAM PRINCE
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WILLIAM PRINCE TALKS JUNO WEEKEND, THE STRESSES OF TOURING AWAY FROM FAMILY, AND MORE
A CONVERSATION WITH WILLIAM PRINCE
With a roster of such astoundingly talented artists in town for JUNO week and weekend, so many events, and so much going on – it wasn’t exactly until afterwards that everyone took in the glory of it all. Even the people who took home the shiny trophies with them.
After the JUNO Gala Dinner, where he was honoured with being the one to give the In Memoriam performance with his song, “Breathless”, winning Contemporary Roots Album of the Year at the Gala for Earthly Days, and playing another show at Irene’s later in the evening, I was given the pleasure of speaking with William Prince about all of that and much more.
The Winnipeg, Manitoba born man has a voice that could carry down a block and still give the people at the very end goosebumps and a personality to match. Being ever so humble and personable after giving two strong performances and a full day of awards and moving around the city, now that’s admirable. On top of that, taking the time after an exhausting few days, when you know he’s got to be ready just to go to bed, and still being delighted to and eager to give an interview – that speaks a great deal to his personality.
In our new interview, you’ll get to know William a bit better, hear what he has to say about life, loss, family, music, and much more.
So, how’s it feeling? It’s been a big day!
Yeah, I think I’ll feel it tomorrow. I’m ready to celebrate. To come off tour and the madness of it all, the pressure is off and tomorrow I get to be with my family and have another great night. It feels pretty good. It’s very validating, not being recognized for an identity, just kind of… there’s jurors who listened to the record and liked the songs you know. That’s… I think I’m slowly starting to celebrate that.
There’s so much going on that I don’t think, even with anyone, everybody is just so busy that it doesn’t even sink in until after it’s all done. Especially coming off tour too. You get that minute and you’re like “oh, wow.”
Yeah, it’s been an emotional time too, being away from my family. But I’m very happy for everybody that’s involved in this. My managers work so hard and the agency and everything. I’m happy, I feel like I came through for everybody. It feels that way, and it’s a cause for celebration.
How is it, coming from a venue like the Shaw Centre and playing for such a large amount of people, then setting into a little intimate venue like Irene’s? It must be somewhat strange to make that transition.
Yeah, I’m comfortable here. I think my music comes across better in small rooms than theatre sized. I’m lucky enough that a lot of the shows I’ve played I’ve had terrific audiences. That’s the great part about being an opener sometimes, you get a chance to win people over. I love these shows, it’s instrumental and stuff. It was great, I have nothing to complain about. I’ve played far more difficult shows.
My sister is in the audience and she’s a full time nurse and mom, so for her to come here and let loose, hear some new songs that she hasn’t heard is pretty fun. It’s nice to test them out in these environments. I started four new songs and then I went into Earthly Days, it was great. [Also], just to play with Lynne (Miles). I’ve known her for so long and known of her for so long, just her influence in Canadian music. Everyone loves her, she’s a sweetheart. I quickly learned who exactly was singing on my record and I’m such a fan. It was definitely the highlight of the show, having her beside me.
You could see it too, in the gaze between the two of you, that it was something that was meant to happen.
Like I said, I’ve been hearing her voice on the album and people ask, when they find out, they’re so moved by it. It adds such a wonderful touch of class.
You were saying that it was a celebration for… that you made it for the rest of the team. It’s an award for all of you in my opinion.
Yeah, for sure. I just love that they listened to the songs and decided that way. It was really cool, I was really happy about the nomination and the things people were saying. No matter the outcome, we win and it gets a little bigger and busier, or we don’t and it stays as big and busy as it is. No competition in heart really, it was just a nice pat on the back to be recognized. I think of taking these songs from the little place that I grew up and then you’re on the stage with all of those people there. It’s not really sinking in.
Are you surprised? Were you expecting it?
We talked about having no expectations going in… I’m so fortunate that all the people in Canada are often times friends. There’s no loss. Quantum Tangle won indigenous (album of the year) and they’re hard working. I’ve seen them at a lot of the things that I’ve been at. Great company, great records. It’s a really big honour for me.
It seemed like you and A Tribe Called Red had a bit of a moment there. Are you guys friends?
Yeah. I know Tim, he’s a great friend of mine. We go back aways and I know Bear even just from them touring and bumping into them here and there. I was so taken by how happy they were for me. That was really something, because they cracked outside of the indigenous category too and that was very nice of them. [It] was kind of what I was hoping for, because I watched what it did for them. It legitimized their craft even further and really put on a bigger spectrum of viewing. These guys are great, talented composers and musicians and they love what they do. They’re so positive and I see [that] when things go your way and you’re fulfilled and travelling, playing the shows. It was nice to finally spend some time with them in an environment of being a peer. That’s really cool, because they’ve had such a huge two years and it put us in the same thing as such great guys.
Do you think there will be a celebration between friends? You guys are all taking things home with you.
Yeah, they have really good ties to Winnipeg too, where I’m from. All the Manitoba music people, Manitoba film and music people, the organizers that are here on behalf of Winnipeg and Manitoba this year. They’re kind of our adopted Winnipeg boys too. It does feel like collection in our community. When we go home it’ll get presented the right way.
So there will be a separate presentation back home, or?
It’ll just be… they’ll do the articles or whatever they do about it and celebrate it for the Winnipeg music scene. They’re pretty supportive in that sense.
Having your family here, you were saying is pretty special. What do you think it’s like for them, getting to see, especially the win? It’s pretty huge.
Yeah, my sister has been putting up with my music since it wasn’t very good. (laughs) She’s my longest running supporter and one of the closest people to me in the world. For her to be here… I wanted to show her what we were working so hard for and then she takes that back and expresses it to our mom in her own way. The way I do it is I [tend to] minimize the details because I do it all the time. Like “it was a great show.” For her to be so proud is very gratifying. Just to hang out together and be together and do something fun. [We’ve got a] busy parent life, busy working life, [so] for her to come and get to just take a load off is really great. That my music brought us here, together, is really huge.
It’s quite amazing to actually see that come to. When you’re listening to it as a kid, you don’t really think that anything like this is going to happen.
Yeah. (laughs) I don’t know how to feel about it just yet. It’s pretty surreal. You hear it and you get to go up there, then it’s this passageway for a moment. Everybody is listening and I just wanted to show them that I was thankful. It’s a sacrifice on your family’s part. I’m away from my son. It’s very emotional with my dad passing, because like I was saying, he’s the originator of the music. Such an influence on everything I do.
The record is about serious love. I like the heavier stuff. Life is too short for small talk. I like sharing those things with people and making that connection.
You said when you were on stage that… there’s always that go to person, that person that you want to go right to and say “Hey! This just happened! I’m so excited!” If you were to say something to him (his father), what would it be?
I wouldn’t have to say much, he would say everything to me. How proud he is, tear up and cry, telling everybody and calling everybody. Just so proud of me. I know exactly what he would do, so it’s not like I’m missing out on it completely. (laughs) Just to bring him a trophy and let him hold it. Tell him about the experience and who I met.
The In Memoriam, how does it feel to get selected to do that? It’s a pretty big thing, especially with the loss of your father. His son was there accepting an award for him.
When we got the word for it, I thought it was almost perfect. I grew up playing in funeral and wake services for the church because that’s where I learnt music. My dad was a pastor. We were the first ones to show up and the last ones to leave. So I though, how fitting that the night where this biggest music thing comes full circle back to a touch of… it was kind of like a mini wake service for a second there. To remember.
I felt really comfortable and really honoured just to be attached to and them announcing me before this list of incredible people and just the centralized theme of Leonard’s (Cohen) passing. It just shows how he trickles down and inspires people. A lot of people drew a Leonard comparison to me. I don’t know if it’s the writing style or lyrical, [but] I get that a lot and listening to his music even more, I see why people draw the comparison. So even that was a little serendipitous, almost cosmic alignment too, to be there honouring him with a song of mine.
They shared with me how excited they were to have me on the show and the JUNO people all day being so accommodating and professional, it’s a bit heavy, but it was a terrific treat and a huge honour to be in that environment. [Also] people afterwards [saying] we’ve never heard you before and being so encouraging right away and immediately on the side of what I’m trying to do. That’s the best part. I love that I got to play, what better condensed place to expose and reveal yourself in a sense, in that room of people. I’m glad I got to add to the performance and not just be a name called to. It was really great.
(Main/Inlay Photo Credits: Fanny L. Photography | Background Photo Credit: Mike Latschislaw)
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Claudia Carino: Bringing Oasis Love to Hamilton
July 17, 2016 By Claudia Carino
As we continue the run of Oasis Love at Theatre Aquarius in the Hamilton Fringe Festival, I think back to how the show has evolved. I had the wonderful fortune of seeing Johnny perform in Pride Cab back in 2014 where pieces of Oasis first emerged. I remember thinking about how it had been quite a long time since I had seen Johnny perform, and the one thing that stood out to me was how at ease Johnny was with telling his story. During that performance, I saw a glimpse of Johnny that I hadn’t seen before as his friend nor as his colleague. We all like to talk about ourselves; share our triumphs and gossip about our faults. Yet it is sometimes hard to talk about things that are near and dear to our hearts, let alone create a show about a very personal experience and perform it night after night. It isn’t easy opening up and sharing intimate moments with strangers; but yet that is one of the highlights of Oasis Love.
So to think of the leaps and bounds the show has made since Pride Cab and the rendition at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre last October, I’d like to thank Franny McCabe-Bennett for believing in this piece and helping Johnny bring it to new heights. Their work together has brought finesse to this humorous and heartbreaking show. And seeing this new version for the first time only a couple of days ago, I was so proud of the storytelling and musicianship Johnny conveys on stage. He performs the best of both worlds. I hope he is proud of the work he has put into this project. It’s been our big baby for the past year and a bit, and now it feels as though that baby is taking it’s first steps.
I commend Johnny’s strength and perseverance with this piece. I saw new sides of Johnny that night back in 2014; and I learned that if you have a story to tell, you should tell it. Someone, somewhere will want to hear it. And I think we are learning through the Hamilton Fringe audiences just how eager they are to listen.
*Oasis Love is on stage at Theatre Aquarius from July 14-24, 2016. To buy tickets please visit the following website.
Filed Under: Oasis Love
Please Welcome the 2016 Oasis Love Team!
May 30, 2016 By Johnny Salib
Johnny Salib // Creator & Performer
Johnny is a multidisciplinary artist from Toronto, Ontario. He studied at Humber College for Theatre Performance and George Brown College for Playwriting. Johnny began his theatrical career in musical theatre and appeared in shows such as Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat (Lea Polson’s Theatre), Noye’s Fluude (CBC Television), and starred as Harry Potter in A Very Potter Musical (CCAA). As Johnny grew older he began distancing himself from musical theatre and joined DCYT, a theatrical troupe established in Toronto, touring Ontario as Peter Pevensie from The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe. Johnny, also being a sound designer and composer, has designed/composed for shows like Jamie’s Gone (Broken Soil Theatre) which received Best of Venue (Hamilton Fringe Festival 2013, The Citadel Theatre venue) & Best of Hamilton Fringe (Hamilton Fringe Festival 2013), Deficiency Syndrome (The ITP) and A Drop Of Water (Slice of Pi). To this date he has released three soundtrack albums and one full length album titled Distant Star. Johnny is currently the Artistic Director of Sisyphean Productions, a Toronto based theatre company that is focused on the development and creation of new works. He has been part of the creation of their projects: Mirror, Mirror; Invisible; and Oasis Love (second runner up at the Hamilton Fringe Festival New Play Contest 2015). Johnny is not only an artist, but also runs queerdeer media, an organization that provides services for queer events, artists, news, and more. He founded four projects with queerdeer: Our Queer Art, a website that features LGBT and queer artists as well as the art pieces that they create; Our Queer Stories, a website that features stories on coming out, overcoming obstacles, self-exploration, etc; Our Daily Queer, a website that provides news articles about LGBT related issues; and Our Queer History; an educational website created to help you learn more about the events, people and places that make up the LGBT and queer historical past. More about Johnny at www.johnnysalib.com
Franny McCabe-Bennett // Director & Dramaturge
Franny McCabe-Bennett, originally from Oakville, is a director, producer, actor, singer, storyteller and comedian working in the GTA. She co-founded the award-winning feminist comic theatre duo Two Juliets where she co-wrote, co-directed and co-starred in XOXO: THE Relationship Show. Franny wrote and directed “Birthday” in the inaugural Theatre Relay project, directed the sold-out run of Zombie Prom at the University of Guelph and was the Assistant Director for Sky Gilbert’s The Shakespeare Experiment: As You Like It and Reconciliation (The Cabaret Company/Buddies In Bad Times Theatre). Her new one-woman-show was recently featured in a workshop at Buddies In Bad Times Theatre, Toronto. Franny is a multidisciplinary artist and has trained in physical theatre, clown, improv (Second City Toronto), classical text and more. She played Pheobe in The Beaver Den, participated in the inaugural Theatre Relay project and appeared as The Nun in Hush, part of the 2013 Gay Play Day Festival at Alumnae Theatre, in Kitchen Party Nervous Breakdown (The Cabaret Company) and as Bad Idea Bear/Mrs Thistletwat in Hammer Entertainment’s production of Avenue Q. As a member of the Monday Funday Creation Group, she has workshopped the roles of Phebe in As You Like It, Malvolio in Twelfth Night and Baptista in The Taming of the Shrew. Favourite acting credits include: We Walk Among You workshop (Artichoke Heart Collective), Gulliver’s Travels (Humber Theatre, dir. Tatiana Jennings), Catherine in Proof*+ (BurlOak Theatre Group), Jeanie in Hair* (West End Studio Theatre), and Julie in Perfect Wedding** (West End Studio Theatre). She has been studying singing with acclaimed Broadway and cabaret veteran Judith Lander for over 10 years. Franny also works as a vocal coach and vocal director for musical theatre. Training: University of Guelph graduate, Humber College drop out. *Oakville Drama Series, Best Female Performance: Nominee. +Theatre Ontario, Association of Community Theatres (Central Ontario): Honourable Mention, Acting. **Oakville Drama Series, Best Female Performance: Recipient. More about Franny at www.frannymcb.com
Jazz Kamal // Lighting Designer
Jazz Kamal is a Toronto based Lighting Designer and theatre collaborator, celebrating 10 years of working in theatre. She is known for her bold designs, live concert improvised and musically intuitive lighting. Her flare for dramatic lighting techniques, vibrant colours, and moody palettes comes through every show she designs. Jazz has designed for various independent, not-for-profit and commercial theatre and dance companies since 2008. As Jazz is also an artist, she always strives to heighten the visual experience of any show she designs, while bringing the performers’ worlds and visions to life. Her designs have been acclaimed by Michael Rudinoff the Dean for Visual & Performing Arts at Sheridan College and various loved directors and theatre practitioners in Toronto. Her credits include: Sheridan Pop Critiques Concert, Musical Theatre Program (December 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015), Rhubarb Festival; Buddies in Bad Times Theatre (February 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016), Femme Playlist, b-current’s AfteRock series (November 2014), Insatiable Sisters (formerly known as Strange Sisters), Buddies in Bad Times Theatre (November 2014), Do I Have To Do Everything My F***ing Self?, Summer Works 2014, Lower Ossington Theatre, Rock.paper.sistahz Festival, b-current, Wychwood Barns (May 2016)
Claudia Carino // Producer
Claudia Carino is a graduate of the Theatre Performance program at Humber College where she trained in physical, ensemble based theatre. She is a singer, a musician, an intermediate certified stage combatant, and an avid athlete. Her recent performance credits include Abbey in Invisible (Sisyphean Productions), Marianne Bachmeier in This Is For You, Anna (Hart House Theatre), Rachel Gold in Mother (Save Me A Seat Collective), Cook/ensemble in Caucasian Chalk Circle, Ippolit Terentyev in an adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s The Idiot, Silvia in The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Humber Theatre), Mme. Giry in The Phantom of the Opera (St. Peter Music Theatre). Having always thrived in leadership roles, Claudia combined her passion for performance and keen interest in business administration to take on various theatre production roles while at Humber including Front of House Manager (Humber Theatre) and Head of Marketing for her final production with her graduating class (Mother) as well as being a core member of the acting ensemble. Continuing as a multi faceted theatre creator, Claudia appeared as a performer and a producer in the 2015 Toronto Fringe Festival, in a collaboratively created show entitled A Drop of Water with her Fringe company Slice of Pi, of which she is co-founder. Claudia is excited to bring Oasis Love to The Hamilton Fringe as part of Sisyphean Production
Molly C. Eskew // Apprentice Producer
Molly C. Eskew is currently finishing a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre Arts at Boston University. She discovered her love of acting at a young age, actively participating in all types of shows, musicals and productions available to her. Upon entering high school, she found a love for directing and directed three shows before starting her training at BU. There she has been able to grow and cultivate herself as a multi-faceted artist and ensemble member by taking part in shows, writing projects and devised works. Her most recent directed work was part of Fools Fall In; The Directors’ Project where she directed a ten min piece and acted in another, working with 8 other directors to create a cohesive evening of theatre. Recently, she just completed a semester at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts where she studied classical acting and voice, historical dance and stage combat. While there, she was able to explore challenging Shakespearean roles like King Henry from Henry V and the lesser known Timon from Timon of Athens. Molly is incredibly excited to be joining the production team of Sisyphean Productions for Oasis Love and looks forward to the new adventure!
Wendy Miller // Stage Manager
Wendy Miller lives in Scarborough, and has stage managed for several community theatre groups over the past 16 years – Onstage Productions, Scarborough Theatre Guild, Scarborough Music Theatre, Stage Centre Productions and Scarborough Players. Her training has been both on-the-job – working with several very supportive and collaborative directors such as Lorraine Green-Kimsa, Dot Routledge and Larry Westlake, as well as through courses taken at Stage Managing the Arts (SMArts) with Janelle Rainville and Winston Morgan. She was delighted to win an ACTCO Thea in 2014 for stage managing The King and I for Scarborough Music Theatre and to be nominated in 2015 for stage managing for Anne of Green Gables (also for SMT). A background in computer science and 16 years of work in administration have provided many useful stage management skills. Wendy loves the process of theatre and helping to bring an idea to life. Thanks to Johnny for including her on this Fringe adventure!
*Oasis Love will be on stage at Theatre Aquarius from July 14-24, 2016. To buy tickets please visit the following website.
Invisible: Seeing beyond the fear
September 6, 2015 By Claudia Carino
“‘We’re so perfect!’ No we’re not! We’ve just made the issues invisible! POOF! We’ve made us invisible!”
Visibility is a new and growing concept for me and in today’s culture. It hasn’t become one of those popular, colloquial terms that we hear everyday like “bae” or “shooting”. And that is very unfortunate. And that is one of the main questions in Invisible, the question of why are things deemed important only when they are presented in the media. Why are we not striving to look beyond the information that is forced upon us, and seek our own answers to our own questions? Why do we accept what is right in front of us when we know it’s often a lie or untrustworthy?
I attended a pre-show discussion before a theatre performance here in Toronto a couple years back, and during the seminar, the speaker brought up the idea of media and the news and what drives it. Why we watch it. Why the stories we hear are all the same stories about violence and disaster. It came down to one word: fear. Our governing bodies are purposely instilling fear into us so that we can be controlled and easily manipulated. Perhaps so we learn to fear each other and turn to our leaders whom we “trust”. Everyday I question what our world would look like if we went just one day of only positive news and media broadcasts. But that’s a different discussion. Back to visibility.
For me, as someone who hasn’t yet found myself fighting for visibility in my life, I feel visibility goes hand in hand with awareness and empathy. We can fight for visibility all we want, but it will go unnoticed if society doesn’t open its eyes and show awareness and empathy for what people are fighting for. All I ask of my peers, and myself, is to have awareness for those around you, for those who differ from you, and for those who are like you, and to try and understand why things are the way they are. We can’t break the rules until we’ve lived within them. For me this piece is about questioning what is before you, and striving to see more. Fight for better answers, fight for more information, don’t let your opinions be made for you. All lives matter. Everyone deserves respect. And that respect will come from awareness and empathy. People are fighting everyday to be heard, and it is our duty to listen.
Invisible plays on September 25 & 26 as part of Gay Play Day at Fraser Studios. You can find tickets here.
Filed Under: Invisible
INVISIBLE: The Inspiration
August 26, 2015 By Johnny Salib
“Where do I start? What does it mean to be invisible? Well don’t you ever feel invisible? Don’t you ever feel like no matter how much you scream no one really listens?”
Why Invisible? Why now? I think the idea of visibility comes up a lot more now a days. We have all of these social media platforms that give individuals the “freedom” to speak up, the freedom to share their problems or successes. We have events that are specifically created for a group of people. We have webpages designed to give space to individuals who feel like they’re not being heard, but is it enough?
I spend a lot of my spare time exploring my city. As I explore I take pauses to people watch, as I’m interested in human interactions. (Probably the biggest cliché you will ever hear from a theatre maker.) Invisible was originally inspired by the interactions I’ve seen with homeless folk over the years. It started with a monologue of how one day you’re might be on top of the world, successful, but the next you may lose your job and be left with nothing, leaving you virtually invisible to the rest of the world. Homelessness is a huge issue in most cities, and it baffles me that we don’t have more information or resources to prevent it. I spent a lot of my elementary and high school days in homeless shelters, volunteering with my parents to make sandwiches. While volunteering, I got the opportunity to listen to a number of the individuals’ lives.
“I met some guy the other day who used to be an engineer, he lost his job, he lost his wife, he lost his house, he fucking lost it all and now he’s invisible!”
I grew up with society telling me that homelessness was caused by laziness. That homeless people were all abusers looking to spend your money on the next quick fix, but after volunteering in the shelter for so long I started realizing that a lot of people were just victims to bad circumstance. I will never forget the day the computer engineer handed my dad a copy of Windows XP and gave him advice on how to make our computers better without spending a lot of money. That’s moment everything became so real for me, especially because my dad spent years building and fixing computers; so to see a man who once wore his shoes in the state that he was in was heartbreaking. It re-humanized the issue for me.
So why not talk about it? Why not use my privilege to spark the conversation. I know I’m grateful for the work other communities have done for mine. I also know there is a fine line to how much you can talk about an experience you never had. That’s where Invisible started growing. I started questioning the visibility among communities I’m part of or communities that directly effect me. More on that to come though.
Official Announcement about Invisible & Oasis Love
August 10, 2015 By Johnny Salib Leave a Comment
I guess the time has come for me to post on this fancy new website. I’m not usually one for blogging, so this time around I have members of the team joining me in creating posts and content. Sisyphean Productions has gone through a number of changes in the past few months, but isn’t that the way life is? We’ve drawn up a number of future plans, but we’re ready to share at least two projects with you.
Sisyphean Productions is proud to present Invisible as part of Gay Play Day on September 25th & 26th, 2015 at Fraser Studios. Gay Play Day is a festival of theatre by playwrights from the LGBTQ community. The show Invisible is a dialogue about what it means to want and need visibility among marginalized communities. Although the show has a heavy theme, it features two quirky best friends who love to have fun. More information to come as updates come your way!
It’s no secret that Oasis Love is being produced this year. This monster of a piece has been through so many rewrites and now is a monster we are taming. Today Claudia, our amazing producer, and I had spent time finishing up all of the designs for our posters and post cards and we have ordered them! I. Am. So. Pumped! This is going to be a great show, and I cannot wait to have you all come see it! Press kits are going out tomorrow, and rehearsals are in progress. As Claudia says, “Be ready. So much blue is coming your way.” It’s true. My costume is also all blue, but at least it’s matching! I also promise to keep you all updated with pictures and images from rehearsals. I don’t have any today, other than the one that I posted on instagram, but I’ll start bringing my camera into the rehearsal space. God bless my parents for buying me that point-and-shoot in grade 9 because I thought I would be a photographer. Oh! The important part! Oasis Love happens on October 8-10th at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre and the tickets are already on sale here. So please come join us!
At the end of the day, we’re planning on becoming more active as a company so please keep your eyes peeled for us. We have some kick ass projects under wraps, but do know we’re hard at work planning for adventures!
Filed Under: Invisible, Oasis Love
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Designing wearable sensors for Preventative Health: An exploration of material, form and function
Prahl, Anne (2015) Designing wearable sensors for Preventative Health: An exploration of material, form and function. PhD thesis, University of the Arts London.
Prahl, PhD thesis, 2015 (27MB)
Prahl, Anne
The financial burden on global healthcare systems has reached unprecedented levels and as a result, attention has been shifting from the traditional approach of disease management and treatment towards prevention (Swan, 2012). Wearable devices for Preventative Health have become a focus for innovation across academia and industry, thus this thesis explores the design of wearable biochemical and environmental sensors, which can provide users with an early warning, detection and monitoring system that could integrate easily into their existing lives.
The research aims to generate new practical knowledge for the design and development of wearable sensors and, motivated by the identification of compelling design opportunities, merges three strands of enquiry. The research methodology supports this investigation into material, form and function through the use of key practice-based methods, which include Participatory Action Research (active immersion and participation in a particular community and user workshops) and the generation and evaluation of a diverse range of artefacts.
Based on the user-centred investigation of the use case for biochemical and environmental sensing, the final collection of artefacts demonstrates a diverse range of concepts, which present biodegradable and recyclable nonwoven material substrates for the use in non-integrated sensors. These sensors can be skin-worn, body-worn or clothing-attached for in-situ detection and monitoring of both internal (from the wearer) and external (from the environment) stimuli.
The research proposes that in order to engage a broad section of the population in a preventative lifestyle to significantly reduce the pressure on global healthcare systems, wearable sensors need to be designed so they can appeal to as many users as possible and integrate easily into their existing lifestyles, routines and outfits. The thesis argues that this objective could be achieved through the design and development of end-of-life considered and cost-effective substrate materials, non-integrated wearable form factors and meticulous consideration of a divergent range of user needs and preferences, during the early stages of design practice.
wearables, smart textiles
Colleges > London College of Fashion
Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)
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Victorian Authors List: Biographies, Books, Literature Styles
Matthew Arnold function of criticism
It was in Arnold’s first collection of critical writings, ‘Essays in Criticism’ in 1865, that his essay, “The Function of Criticism at the Present Time” was published. Before the publication of three essays, he had just got done with some lectures on the translation of Homer- works which bear, in a less developed form, some of Arnold’s ideas on the need for new, intelligent criticism in England.
Criticism ought to be a ‘dissemination of ideas, an unprejudiced and impartial effort to study and spread the best that is known and thought in the world’, is what Matthew Arnold says in his essay- The Function of Criticism at the Present Time (1864).
Nature and function of criticism
He writes that when assessing a particular work, the goal is ‘to see the object as in itself it really is’. Psychological, historical and sociological backgrounds are immaterial. This attitude was very influential and particularly noteworthy with later critics.
Fundamental argument in function of criticism
The fundamental argument of the essay describes what Matthew Arnold felt to be the existing attitude that the constructive, creative capacity was much more important than the critical faculty. His extensive definition of criticism, however-” the endeavour, in all branches of knowledge, theology, philosophy, history, art, science, to see the object as in itself it really is”-causes to be criticism a necessary pre-requirement for a valuable creation.
Matthew Arnold function of criticism book
In his pursuit for the best, a critic Arnold believed that it should not only restrict or limit himself to the literature works of his own country but should draw significantly on foreign literature and ideas to a large extent, because the spreading of ideas should be an objective venture.
At a particular point in his career, Matthew Arnold was well-liked and a much-accepted poet. But later in his life, his interest turned with vigor to criticism of both literary works and forms and the social fabric of society. According to Matthew Arnold, Criticism, in his essay, The Function of Criticism at the Present Time, functions as an attempt or an effort that is not necessarily dependent upon any creative art form; rather criticism is intrinsically valuable in itself, whether its value sprouts from bringing joy to the writer of it or whether that value roots from making sure that the paramount ideas reach society.
He connects criticism with creative power right through the essay and terminates with an idea that links to the earlier one above when he emphasize that that writing criticism may actually produce in its practitioner a sense of ecstatic creative joy just like someone engaging in what we normally think of creative writing feels.
Arnold makes an effort to demonstrate that criticism in and of itself has several significant functions and should be observed as an art form that is as high and important as any creative art form.
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About VSJMC
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Alumni VSJMC School
Dr. Vaishali Kumar
(Ph.D,M.M.C)
Dr. Vaishali did her Masters in Mass Communication from Guru Jambheshwar University of Science & Technology and Doctorate in Advertising from Faculty of Media Studies, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science & Technology.She did PGD in Marketing from Symbiosis Centre for Distance Learning, Pune.
Beginning a career as Guest Faculty in Department of Advertising Management & Public Relations, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science & Technology, she worked for about two & a half years in the University teaching PG Course.She joined the Institute as Assistant Professor in 2008.
Publications / Workshop / Seminar, etc
She has attended & presented papers at various international & national conferences/seminar/workshop/symposium and has 8 publications in the referred Journals of repute.
Authored lessons on Advertising for Distance Learning Study Material for PGDAD&PR. Dr. Vaishali has supervised around 150 research projects & 30 advertising projects.
She is also energetically involved in organizing various seminars, workshops at State & National Level with CSDS, PR Department, Haryana Government & in- house events & programmes. She is an active member of various committees at VIPS.
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New Study of National Heart Attack Admissions and Mortality Finds No Evidence of a Short-Term Effect of Smoking Bans
Most Definitive Study to Date Refutes Conclusions of Many Earlier Studies and Demonstrates Why These Studies Obtained Positive Findings
A new study by researchers from the RAND Corporation, Center for Studying Health System Change, University of Wisconsin, and Stanford University is the first to examine the relationship between smoking bans and heart attack admissions and mortality trends in the entire nation, using national data. All previous U.S. studies only examined one particular city. In contrast, this study examined data from the Nationwide Inpatient Survey (NIS), which is nationally representative and includes 20% of all non-federal hospital discharges in the United States. The study appears in the Winter 2011 issue of the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management.
Study citation: Shetty KD, DeLeire T, White C, Bhattacharya J. Changes in U.S. hospitalization and mortality rates following smoking bans. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 2011; 30(1):6-28.
The key conclusions of the study are as follows:
1. "In contrast with smaller regional studies, we find that smoking bans are not associated with statistically significant short-term declines in mortality or hospital admissions for myocardial infarction or other diseases."
2. "An analysis simulating smaller studies using subsamples reveals that large short-term increases in myocardial infarction incidence following a smoking ban are as common as the large decreases reported in the published literature."
The study uses state and local workplace smoking ordinance data from the American Nonsmokers' Rights Foundation tobacco control database for the years 1989 through 2004 and national data on heart attack admissions and mortality from the National Inpatient Survey (1993-2004), as well as from the Multiple Cause of Death database (1989-2004) and Medicare Provider Analysis and Review files (1997-2004). Using a fixed effects regression model, the authors analyze outcomes (heart attack admissions and mortality) before and after the implementation of all workplace, bar, or restaurant smoking bans in the nation, as identified in the ANR database.
The regression coefficient of interest represents the change in heart attack admissions or mortality associated with the implementation of a smoking ban, while controlling for secular trends in the outcome variable as well as regional differences in outcomes and regional differences in population size, number of physicians, number of hospital beds, household income, and percent of the population in the labor force.
The study also simulates the results from the comparison of all possible combinations of regions in the U.S. by examining subsets of the data, where one region is an intervention unit and the other is a comparison or control unit. The authors are therefore able to simulate what the results would be for each of the 15,824 possible comparisons of intervention and control regions in the country.
The main study result is that the regression coefficients for the smoking ban variable is not statistically significant in either the heart attack admission or heart attack mortality model, indicating that the smoking bans had no effect on either heart attack admissions or heart attack mortality.
The study estimates that workplace smoking laws increased heart attack mortality by a non-significant 1.9%, with a 95% confidence interval of -0.9% to +4.7%. The study estimates that workplace smoking laws reduced heart attack admissions among 18-64 year-old adults by a non-significant 3.6%, with a 95% confidence interval of -9.6% to +2.5%.
The study estimates that workplace smoking laws reduced heart attack hospitalizations by a non-significant 2.0%, with a 95% confidence interval of -7.0% to +3.0%. The study estimates that workplace smoking laws increased heart attack admissions among 18-64 year-old adults by a non-significant 1.8%, with a 95% confidence interval of -4.5% to +8.0%.
There was also no significant effect of any smoking restrictions (including bar and restaurant smoking bans) on either heart attack admissions or mortality.
Most interestingly, the simulation of all possible comparison studies of local regions in the U.S. finds that just as many studies would find an increase in heart attacks associated with smoking bans as would find a decrease in heart attacks (see Figure 2). The mean difference in heart attack admissions among all studies was 0. The exact same result was found for heart attack mortality (see Figure 3).
The paper concludes: "We find no evidence that legislated U.S. smoking bans were associated with shortterm reductions in hospital admissions for acute myocardial infarction or other diseases in the elderly, children, or working-age adults." ...
"We show that there is wide year-to-year variation in myocardial infarction death and admission rates even in large regions such as counties and hospital catchment areas. Comparisons of small samples (which represent subsamples of our data and are similar to the samples used in the previous published literature) might have led to atypical findings. It is also possible that comparisons showing increases in cardiovascular events after a smoking ban were not submitted for publication because the results were considered implausible. Hence, the true distribution from single regions would include both increases and decreases in events and a mean close to zero, while the published record would show only decreases in events. Publication bias could plausibly explain the fact that dramatic short-term public health improvements were seen in prior studies of smoking bans." ...
"We show that positive and negative changes in AMI incidence are equally likely after a smoking ban, which suggests that publication bias, not outcome heterogeneity, explains the skewed results seen in prior reviews. The IOM and other policymakers have relied on the weight of the published literature when making decisions. However, it appears that publication bias did not receive sufficient attention. Our results suggest that only positive studies have been published thus far, and the true short-run effects of governmental workplace smoking bans would be more modest in the U.S. inclusion of such unpublished negative studies might change the conclusions of the IOM and other decision makers on this issue."
Without a doubt, this is the most definitive study yet conducted of the short-term effects of smoking bans on cardiovascular disease.
To give you an idea of the scope of this study compared to previous ones, the Helena study involved a total of 304 heart attack admissions in one community over a period of six months. This study examined a total of 673,631 heart attack admissions and more than 2 million heart attack deaths in 467 counties across all 50 states over an 16-year period.
This study fails to find any significant short-term effect of smoking bans on heart attack admissions or heart attack mortality, although a small effect cannot be ruled out. The study refutes the claims from previous studies that smoking bans result in a short-term reduction in heart attacks in the range of 20-40%, as many anti-smoking groups are asserting. It also refutes the conclusion of the Institute of Medicine that smoking bans result in immediate, substantial declines in heart attack admissions.
The most important finding of this study is that there are just as many smoking ban communities in which heart attack admissions and mortality have increased in comparison with control communities as there are smoking ban communities in which heart attacks have decreased relative to control communities. The mean difference was found to be zero.
Thus, the study not only fails to find a short-term effect of smoking bans on heart attacks, but it also explains the positive findings of previous studies. What appears to be going on is what is referred to as publication bias.
What this means is the following: if one wanted an unbiased estimate of the effect of smoking bans on heart attacks, one would ideally include all communities that have enacted a smoking ban. In reality, what has occurred is that there have been what essentially amount to anecdotal studies conducted in several communities. These few studies have been published in the literature. It is possible that similar studies were conducted that failed to find an effect and that these studies were therefore not published. It is also possible that the finding of positive results in the few communities studied was essentially a result of chance. There may be other reasons why certain communities were selected for study. For example, researchers may subconsciously have a feeling that heart attacks have decreased and may want to conduct research to confirm if this is the case or not.
For whatever reason, it is apparent that the sample of communities in which this issue has been studied represents a biased sample of all possible studies that could have been conducted. When one examines, systematically, data for all regions in which smoking bans have been enacted, one fails to find a significant effect of smoking bans on either heart attack admissions or heart attack mortality.
This doesn't meant that smoking bans will not eventually result in reductions in cardiovascular disease. That will take considerable time. It just means that the conclusions of anti-smoking researchers and groups that heart attacks drop immediately upon passage of smoking bans appear to be wrong.
When I first questioned the validity of the conclusions of the Helena and Pueblo studies, I was attacked by many of my colleagues, called a traitor, and expelled from list-serves because they did not want me to spread my dissenting opinion. Now, it has become quite clear that my skepticism was well-placed to begin with. The most definitive study to date has refuted the findings of these studies.
It is important for me to point out that I never took issue with the data presented in the individual studies. There were demonstrable declines in heart attack admissions in the intervention cities. What I questioned was the conclusion that these declines were attributable to the smoking ban, rather than to random variation in the data and/or secular changes in heart attacks, which we know are declining throughout the country, even in the absence of smoking bans. There have been considerable advances in surgical and pharmaceutical treatments for coronary heart disease and these may well be the major contributing factors to the observed decline in heart attack rates.
This new research demonstrates why tobacco control researchers and groups have to be very careful in drawing causal conclusions, and why it is better to uphold high standards of scientific rigor rather than to jump to premature conclusions that may later be shown to be incorrect. Tobacco control groups, and the movement as a whole, will lose some scientific credibility because of these new findings which do not support their conclusions. But it is too late to retract those conclusions because they have already been widely disseminated through the media.
It is far better to get it correct the first time. But that requires adherence to solid science. You cannot allow advocacy concerns and goals - no matter how noble they may be - to interfere with the process of objective scientific evaluation. That is exactly what has occurred in tobacco control.
The rest of the story is the best available evidence does not support the conclusion that smoking bans have resulted in immediate, substantial declines in heart attack admissions, as anti-smoking groups as well as the Institute of Medicine boasted. The anti-smoking groups and IOM did not adequately take into account the role of publication bias. Neither did they adequately take into account the lack of control groups in most of the studies, as well as the failure of these studies to rigorously control for secular trends in heart attack admissions and to rule out alternative explanations for the study findings.
Of course, my readers will understand that the lack of a short-term effect of smoking bans on heart attacks does not mean that these are not important policies that protect the public's health. It simply means that anti-smoking groups have been wrong in touting this claim and that the scientific rigor in the anti-smoking movement has disintegrated.
Now here is the really interesting question:
Will anti-smoking groups share and/or publicize the results of this new study or will they simply ignore evidence that does not fit their pre-determined conclusions?
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The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) is to review its draconian social media policy after being chastised by the Finance Sector Union (FSU), which said it was unreasonable.
The policy, which came into effect on 1 December 2010, states that CBA employees cannot "comment on, post or store any information about Bank related matters ... disparage or speak adversely about the Group, its customers, employees or contractors (including supporting others who do this by associating with them online)".
The FSU has written a letter to CBA claiming that the new policy restricts employees in a way which is discriminatory, restricts freedom of expression, and contradicts employees' protections afforded by the Fair Work Act 2009.
"A conversation about the colour of the tea cups at the workplace; who is winning the footy tipping competition or what day of the week CBA employees are permitted to wear casual clothes are examples of conversations that would constitute a breach of the policy as it is currently worded," it said in the letter.
The CBA is to reconsider its policy following the FSU's action. It told AdNews: "The Bank has received correspondence from the FSU and a meeting has been arranged to discuss their concerns. The Bank will amend the policy, where it is considered reasonable to do so to ensure that all of its staff continue to be treated fairly."
The FSU has asked the bank to stop implementing the policy until its concerns are addressed.
CommBank under attack for social media policy
By By David Blight | 4 February 2011
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Rachel Badham
Acting Political: Celebrity Involvement In The Political Landscape
Amid the build up to the US mid-term elections, global megastar Taylor Swift released a political statement via Instagram to her 112 million followers. Swift has previously been known for avoiding any conversation regarding her political views, saying that she has been ‘reluctant to publically voice her opinions’.
Swift stated that she intended to vote for Tennessee’s Democrat candidates, and condemned the voting record of Republican candidate, Marsha Blackburn. wift concluded by urging her fans to ‘educate’ themselves on their state candidates and register to vote.
Since her post the number of those registering to vote has skyrocketed, with statistics from vote.org showing that 65,000 registered in the 24-hour period after Swift’s social media statement. Tennessee, Swift’s state of registration, saw a particularly great increase in those registered to vote.
Celebrities may ‘not be well informed’ themselves, so their influence may be damaging.
Swift is not the first celebrity to venture into the political scene. Beyoncé and Jay Z publically backed Hillary Clinton in the 2016 US elections, and even performed at a rally with an attendance of 10,000, which was designed to encourage American citizens to use their vote. Public figures such as Miley Cyrus and Katy Perry also vocalised their political stance during the 2016 election.
The US is not the only country whose political system receives celebrity attention. Many high profile celebrities in the UK voiced their political opinions before the 2016 EU referendum, with David Beckham and JK Rowling publicly voicing their intention to vote to remain.
It appears that celebrities are increasingly shaping the political landscape, a phenomenon that has both beneficial and dangerous implications. Swift’s actions have sparked online debate, even prompting The New York Times to pose the question as to whether or not celebrities should weigh in on politics, inviting readers to comment their personal opinions on this matter. It became evident that many find the fact that celebrities have a degree of political influence to be problematic.
One contributor stated that they ‘strongly believe celebrities should stay out of politics’ as ‘citizens should be able to form their own opinion’. Another pointed out that ‘the weight celebrity opinion carries is massive’ and suggested that because of this it’s best for famous figures to ‘stay out of it and let the public decide for themselves’.
It is undeniable that celebrities have a large platform, and their ability to influence their audience may be dangerous if it prevents people from forming their own opinions based on their own country’s current situation. One user also pointed out that the celebrity may ‘not be well informed’ themselves, so their influence may be damaging.
Celebrities such as Swift also have a fan base which consists of many young people, who may be more susceptible to influence as they are likely to have a greater degree of engagement with celebrity social media platforms. There is a potential danger as it could prevent young people from properly educating themselves and deciding who to vote for.
However many were in favour of celebrities voicing their political opinions. A contributor to The New York Time’s debate surrounding the issue stated that ‘when celebrities use their platforms to speak out about politics, it opens up a dialogue on the issue and brings attention to it’.
What has been highlighted here is that celebrity involvement in politics perhaps makes the political scene more accessible to the public. This could be beneficial in that it may encourage more to engage with politics and to vote, thus allowing more to exercise their own voice. The rise in those registered to vote after Swift’s statement is an illustration of these positive effects.
Free speech is a key aspect of democratic society
Another user involved in the debate said that celebrities deserve ‘freedom to voice their opinions’, as free speech is a key aspect of democratic society. Another even went further and stated that ‘celebrities should be encouraged to voice their opinions’, as it is their right to.
The debate as to whether or not celebrities should be involved in politics has clearly divided opinions. Personally I believe that, providing it is done in a responsible fashion, celebrity involvement in politics should be a positive example of freedom of speech.
Many members of the public are very detached from their country’s political scene, so when celebrities use their large platform to encourage people to vote they encourage citizens to exercise their democratic power.
I am more wary of celebrities using their platforms to voice their personal beliefs instead of just highlighting the importance of voting, however we all have the right of free speech and celebrities should be no exception.
Yet if a celebrity does wish to make a political statement they should do so in a responsible way by educating themselves properly beforehand.
They should also be aware that they do have the power to influence, and so they should voice their opinions in a mature and civilised way, perhaps with evidence to support their statement.
It is also important to bear in mind that the celebrity’s audiences are not passive and will not always be influenced just from reading someone else’s statement.
In fact, studies undertaken in the US show that around 60% of citizens feel that celebrities did not influence their personal political views at all, and furthermore only 9% said they are strongly influenced by entertainer’s opinions.
So whilst celebrity involvement in the political landscape is a debated topic, particularly after Taylor Swift’s recent statement, famous figures voicing their opinions may be beneficial in helping create a democratic society.
Whether or not you agree with celebrities getting involved in politics, Swift did make a point of high significance. Educating yourself about the current political situation as well as registering to vote are perhaps some of the most important actions we can take as citizens to ensure our democratic system works as effectively as possible.
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Tag Archives: the West Window of St. George’s Chapel
Travel – St. George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle
In Part One of the Travel post series on Windsor Castle, I discussed the history of the Castle, which dates back over 1000 years to when it was built shortly after the Norman Conquest. In Part Two, I discussed the architecture of the main buildings and gave a short tour of some of the rooms inside the castle and the surrounding grounds of Windsor Great Park.
In this post, I will discuss in more detail St. George’s Chapel which is located in the Lower Ward of Windsor Castle. St. George’s Chapel is dedicated to the patron saint of the Order of the Carter, which was an organization first established by King Edward III in 1348. The Order is the oldest British order of chivalry and St. George’s Chapel is where the traditional Garter ceremony takes place every June. (For more information on the history of the Order of the Garter and the ceremony, please click on the link)
A Brief History of St. George’s Chapel
Located in the Lower Ward of Windsor Castle, the Chapel of St. Edward the Confessor had been originally built during the reign of King Henry III (1216-1272). Then in 1348, King Edward III (1327-1377) established the Order of the Garter, St. George is the patron saint of the order. Ultimately by 1475, King Edward IV (1461-1483) decided that Windsor Castle would be the headquarters of the order and he requested that the Chapel of St. Edward the Confessor be expanded for this purpose and be renovated in a grand style to reflect the prestige of the order.
From the period of 1475 to 1528 St. George’s Chapel was built over the reign of several British Monarchs, starting with King Edward IV, King Henry VII and Henry VIII. The original Chapel of St. Edward the Confessor was enlarged and rededicated to become St. George’s Chapel. In 1483 construction on the Chapel’s Nave began and it was not completed until 1509. Meanwhile, the large stained glass West Window was completed in 1506. Finally in 1528 the stone fan vaulting was installed on the Chapel ceiling.
During the time of the English Civil Wars (1642-1651) between the Parliamentarians and the Royalists, Windsor Castle and in particular St. George’s Chapel were severely damaged. As a result of the Parliamentarian victory at the Battle of Worcester in September 1651, King Charles I was removed from power and executed, his son was exiled and Oliver Cromwell oversaw the government of the newly formed Commonwealth of England. Eventually Charles II returned and was proclaimed King in May 1660. With these government issues finally settled a period known as the Restoration began and as a result the damage to Windsor Castle and St. George’s Chapel could be repaired.
Until the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901) St. George’s Chapel remained relatively unchanged for hundreds of years. Then, significant alterations were made to the architecture of the east end of the Chapel in the years following the 1861 death of Prince Albert, the beloved husband of Queen Victoria. In tribute to the Prince, George Gilbert Scott received the commission to create a royal mausoleum was built underneath the Lady Chapel and became known as the Albert Memorial Chapel.
In fact, St. George’s Chapel throughout the years has become the final resting place of several monarchs who are buried beside with their consorts – King Edward IV, King Henry VIII and his third wife Jane Seymour, King Charles I, King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, King George V and Queen Mary, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth to name just a few.
A tour of St. George’s Chapel
Before entering St. George’s Chapel, take a look at the top portion of the building. Located on the roof are heraldic statues which represent the Queen’s Beasts. The original Beasts date back to the sixteenth century but were removed in 1682 when Sir Christopher Wren felt that the statues detracted from the aesthetic appeal of the Chapel exterior architecture. In 1925, when the Chapel was undergoing restoration, the current statues were placed on the top portion of the building. There are fourteen different animals which were used as heraldic symbols dating back to centuries long ago: the lion of England, the red dragon of Wales, the panther of Jane Seymour, the falcon of York, the black bull of Clarence, the yale (a mythical horned creature) of Beaufort, the white lion of Mortimer, the greyhound of Richmond, the white hart (a type of deer) of King Richard II, the silver antelope of Bouhn, the black dragon of Ulster, the white swan of Hereford, the unicorn of King Edward III and the golden hind (a type of deer) of Kent.
St. George’s Chapel is an excellent example of Perpendicular Gothic architecture. The Chapel design features large windows which allowed light into the interior and tall narrow columns which add an element of elegance. Visitors access the interior of the Chapel through a side door near the Chantry Bookshop and proceed into the Nave. Visitor Tip: When standing in the Nave, be sure to look up to see the beautiful stone vaulted ceiling. There are 463 bosses (a projecting medallion which conceals the joints were the ribs of the vault meet) and some represent the arms of the Sovereign and Knights of the Garter while others are the Tudor red and white roses. Beneath the upper or clerestory windows look for a continuous frieze that encircles the entire chapel and features 250 carved angels.
Above the Main entrance to St. George’s Chapel is the West Window which is said to be England’s third largest stained-glass window. The West Window measures 30 feet high and 29 feet wide and was original installed in the early 1500s. In 1842, Thomas Willement reconstructed the window and it was once again altered in the 1920s when the Chapel underwent a major restoration project. Each time the window was reconfigured and new figures were added and today there are seventy-five which represent kings, princes, popes and saints.
After visitors have finished looking at the West Window, to the right are two interesting historical statues. The first one is located in the Urswick Chantry and is a large sculpture by Matthew Wyatt which is a lasting memorial to Princess Charlotte. Princess Charlotte was the only child of King George IV and she was the heiress presumptive to the throne of England. The popular Princess had happily married the handsome Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg. Sadly, the twenty-one year old Princess Charlotte died giving birth to a still-born child in 1817. Royal Note: With Princess Charlotte’s death, the future of the monarchy came into question and the brothers of King George IV scrambled to marry and produce the new heir to the throne to continue the line of succession. As a result, Princess Victoria went onto to ultimately become Queen Victoria with her accession to the throne in 1837 at the age of eighteen.
Located near the Princess Charlotte Memorial is the statue of King Leopold I created by the sculptor J.E. Boehm. Prince Leopold was the husband of Princess Charlotte and after her death he later went on to become the first King of the Belgium. He is also noted as the beloved uncle of both Queen Victoria and Prince Albert; he served as adviser to the Queen throughout her early reign.
Located not far from the previous two statues, visitors will see the tombs of several Sovereigns who have their final resting place in St. George’s Chapel. Located near the West Door is the tomb of King George V and Queen Mary; their effigies were sculpted by Sir William Reid Dick in 1939. King George V was born on June 3, 1865 and he reigned from 1910 until his death on January 20, 1936. Queen Mary (former Princess Mary of Teck) was born on May 26, 1867 and she died on March 24, 1953.
Moving further down the Nave on the North side of the building, visitors will come upon the George VI Chapel which was the first structural addition to St. George’s Chapel since the 1500s. The architect was George Pace who designed this fairly small area and it is the final resting place of King George VI, Queen Elizabeth and their daughter, Princess Margaret. King George VI (former Prince Albert, Duke of York) was born December 14, 1895 and he reigned from 1936 until his death on February 6, 1952. Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother (former Elizabeth Bowes-Lyons) was born on August 4, 1900 and she died on March 30, 2002. Their daughter, Princess Margaret died on February 9, 2002 just a few weeks prior to the Queen Mother’s death and her ashes were interred at the same time.
The area above the Nave of St. George’s Chapel is the Choir and Chancel (the part of a church near the altar, reserved for the clergy and choir, and typically separated from the nave by steps or a screen). The Choir features carved oak stalls with tall canopies. To the back of each stall is brass plate which identifies each individual Knight of the Order of the Garter by name. The Order is the oldest British order of chivalry which was an organization first established by King Edward III in 1348. Also, above each stall is the heraldic banner of the Knight along with a sword and crest or helmet, coronet or crown. The Sovereign’s Stall which is used by Queen Elizabeth II when she attends services at St. George’s Chapel, in particular in June on Garter Day, is located in the section of the Choir closest to the Nave. Interesting Fact: The oldest stall plate circa 1390 is of Lord Basset and throughout the centuries there have been over 900 Knights of the Garter but only 670 stall plates still exist.
In the Quire of St. George’s Chapel, between the Choir stalls and the altar is the Royal Vault which is the final resting place of four Sovereigns; King George III who died in 1820, King George IV who died in 1830 and King William IV who died in 1837. A short distance away is the burial vault of two more Sovereigns; King Henry VIII who died in 1547, his third wife Jane Seymour died in 1537 and King Charles I who died in 1649.
Behind the altar of St. George’s Chapel is the East Window which was made by Clayton and Bell and was first unveiled on the occasion of the wedding of the Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales and Princess Alexandra in 1863. The large stained-glass window theme is the Incarnation with scenes from the Nativity and the Resurrection. Below the window are fourteen wooden panels commissioned as a memorial to Prince Albert, the husband of Queen Victoria, who died in 1861 and depicts various moments from both his public and private life.
At the north east corner of the Chapel is the final resting place of two more Sovereigns. The tomb of King Edward IV who died in 1483 and a short distance away is tomb of King Henry VI who died in 1471, first buried in Chertsey Abbey located in Surrey and in 1484 his body was brought to St. George’s Chapel and re-interred.
On the opposite side of the altar, on the south side of the building is the tomb of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra. King Edward VII (former Prince Albert the Prince of Wales) was born November 9, 1841 and reigned from 1901 until his death on May 6, 1910. Queen Alexandra (former Princess Alexandra of Denmark) was born on December 1, 1844 and died on November 20, 1925.
One of the final stops on the tour of St. George’s Chapel is the Albert Memorial Chapel. The original chapel was built in 1240 and continued to be altered throughout the following centuries. Then, after the death of the husband of Queen Victoria, the site was redesigned and rededicated to become the Albert Memorial Chapel.
St. George’s Chapel has been the site of the several Royal events, most notably the annual Garter Ceremony held in every June. Several other important events for the British Royal family have also taken place in recent years. In 1999, Prince Edward, the third son of Queen Elizabeth II, and Sophie Rhys-Jones were married in St. George’s Chapel followed by a grand reception in Windsor Castle. In 2002, the funeral of Princess Margaret, the sister of Queen Elizabeth, took place at the Chapel and later that same year Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother was buried beside her husband, King George VI. In 2005 the dedication and prayer service of Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales and Camilla Parker Bowles, the Duchess of Cornwall was held at the Chapel after they were officially married in a civil ceremony at the Windsor Guildhall.
Travel Note: If you are planning a trip to England and a visit to Windsor Castle and St. George’s Chapel, please click on the www.windsor.gov.uk/things-to-do/windsor-castle for more information.
For visitors to Windsor Castle, St. George’s Chapel is included in the admission price. When entering the Chapel, please be respectful and observe the posted rules. Also, please be advised that on Sundays the Chapel is closed to visitors for religious services that are held throughout the day.
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Lifetime's Provocative New Docuseries "Marrying Millions" Premieres July 10, Exploring the True Intentions of Six Deeply in Love Couples
The series follows six couples who are deeply in love and hoping to marry, but come from completely different worlds.
MARRYING MILLIONS (LIFETIME)
currently airing (summer 2019)
wednesdays from 10:00 PM-11:00 PM EST
1 (10 episodes)
(from Lifetime's press release, May 2019) Lifetime explores the love lives of six couples in the new docuseries Marrying Millions, premiering Wednesday, July 10, at 10 pm ET/PT. From the creators of 90 Day Fiancé, the new series follows the relationships where one partner is incredibly wealthy, and the other is definitively not, leading the couple to face intense scrutiny and questioning whether it's true love... or true love of the money and the lavish lifestyles that follow? Marrying Millions follows six couples who are deeply in love and hoping to marry, but come from completely different worlds. Regular people are whisked off their feet and plunged into a high-end life of riches, extravagant experiences, and glamorous trips around the globe. While it may sound like a modern-day fairytale, it's definitely not all champagne and caviar. On the road to the altar, the couples must try to bridge their vast differences and fit into each other's alien worlds. Ten one-hour episodes have been ordered.
· Dan Adler as EP
· James Bolosh as EP (Lifetime)
· Jason Hollis as EP
· Matt Sharp as EP
· Sharp Entertainment
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Issue: Sep 2006
Ford to Explore Strategic Options for Aston Martin
by Rob White
Ford Motor Company has begun the process of exploring strategic options for Aston Martin, with particular emphasis on a potential sale of all or a portion of the unit.
"As part of our ongoing strategic review, we have determined that Aston Martin may be an attractive opportunity to raise capital and generate value," said Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Bill Ford. "Aston Martin Lagonda has flourished under Ford ownership, which is why we believe it is prudent to consider a sale of all or part of this prized brand. Since Aston Martin's dealer network, product architecture and size are distinctly different from other Ford brands, it is the most logical and capital-smart divestiture choice. The objective of any sale would be to position Aston Martin within a structure and resource base sufficient to allow it to reach its full potential, while enabling Ford to efficiently raise capital for its other brands."
Mr. Ford added, "Regarding our other Premier Automotive Group brands, we've made no decisions, as our review of strategic alternatives continues. However, we continue to be encouraged by Jaguar's progress and by the strength and consumer appeal of the Jaguar, Land Rover and Volvo product lineups."
The company said there can be no assurance that the decision to explore strategic options for Aston Martin will result in any transaction, which would be subject to Board approval.
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Issue: Dec 2008
'The Engine of Democracy' Coalition to Send Workers From 50 States to Washington to Support Auto Bri
by John Larkin
The Engine Of Democracy, a coalition of organizations representing more than 6 million jobs related to the American automotive industry, today announced plans to send representatives from all 50 states and the District of Columbia to Washington, D.C., to show support for $25 billion in federal loans to General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler LLC.
Spearheaded by suppliers and dealers in all states, this effort shows the massive, nationwide support for the federal loans the automakers need to help ensure the national security of the United States, the continuation of a robust automotive manufacturing base and the economic well-being of the nation and its citizens.
"This is about line workers, parts suppliers, dealership mechanics, and hard working moms and dads earning a living for their families," said Carl Galeana, an automobile dealer in several states and a coalition organizer. "As Americans, we depend on the auto industry to drive our economy in these very tough times. The role it played in reinvigorating our economy after 9/11 is just one example. And please, let's not forget how this industry turned on a dime and became what President Roosevelt called 'The Arsenal of Democracy' during World War II."
On December 5, 2008, 51 people from the 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia who are directly or indirectly employed thanks to GM, Ford or Chrysler will gather outside the U.S. Capitol Building to tell their employment story and the impact of automakers on their locale. Each participant will be wearing a red, white and blue sport jersey with key data about the industry's impact on their state emblazoned on them.
"America's car companies play a crucial role in the nation's economic engine," said Neil DeKoker of the 400-member Original Equipment Suppliers Association. "Almost 4 percent of U.S. gross domestic product is auto-related and represents 10 percent of U.S. industrial production by value. Ford, GM and Chrysler account for more than 70 percent of U.S. production and support more than 6 million jobs across all 50 states and the District of Columbia."
According to Driving the Future: The New American Auto Industry by The Automotive Trade Policy Council, the U.S. auto industry invests $10 billion in this country in plants and equipment each year. In addition, the U.S.-based auto industry is second only to the semiconductor industry in R&D spending –- $12 billion last year alone, the study said.
A significant portion of that R&D money is spent developing alternative energy vehicles that will move the U.S. away from its dependence on oil. Without the work of GM, Ford and Chrysler, the U.S. could be forced to import critical technologies such as batteries, biofuel technology, advanced internal combustion engines and transmissions, hybrid systems, and fuel cells. That, in itself, has all the markings of a national security disaster.
The auto industry has one of the largest economic multipliers of any sector of the U.S. economy. Its growth or contraction can be detected in changes in the U.S. Gross Domestic Product. In many states, employment in automotive and automotive parts manufacturing ranks among the top three manufacturing industries, according to a recent report by the Center for Automotive Research (CAR).
The Engine of Democracy coalition also will launch a microsite entitled "The Engine of Democracy," Monday with the URL www.THEENGINEofDEMOCRACY.com. Automotive employees, retirees, car owners, auto supplier employees, dealership employees, mayors, state legislators and interested citizens will be encouraged to go on the site and add their stories about America's car industry and its impact on their lives. Visitors also will be encouraged to write their Congresswomen, Congressmen, Senators, Secretary Paulson, President Bush and President-Elect Obama –- as well as legislators from other states –- to encourage the U.S. Government to approve a bridge loan for America's car companies.
Visitors also will be able to see the impact of Detroit's automakers on their state as well as key facts and myth-busters concerning Detroit's automakers such as:
The automakers are requesting a bridge loan, not a bailout as Wall Street has done. The companies need the loan because the U.S. credit freeze has essentially closed capital markets and squeezed their cash flow from operations that are being devastated by extremely low consumer demand across the industry. This freeze is happening as the automakers are in the midst of huge restructuring costs, heavy pension and health care payments and massive-yet-crucial product and advanced technology investments so that today's and tomorrow's vehicles are even safer and more environmentally friendly.
GM, Ford and Chrysler make vehicles Americans want to buy. 50 percent of the products sold in this country come from those companies. The best-selling vehicle in the U.S. is a Ford; No. 2 is a GM product.
Motor vehicles and parts are the single largest export from the U.S., topping aerospace, medical equipment and communications.
According to J.D. Power, three of the top five brands for dependability are American made: Buick, Cadillac and Mercury. The 2008 Chevy Malibu is the highest ranked midsize car in initial quality. The 2008 Chevy Silverado ranks highest in large truck quality. Ford quality is on par with Toyota and Honda.
Ford has the most five-star safety rated vehicles in the industry and GM has the same number of vehicles as Toyota that achieved the top safety rating, according to the Institute for Highway Safety.
GM, Ford and Chrysler build fuel-efficient vehicles. GM has twice as many models that get 30 mpg or better than its nearest competitor. GM's four new midsize crossover vehicles have best-in-class fuel economy. GM has eight hybrids on the road today, with a total of 20 planned by 2012. The 2-Mode Chevy Tahoe full-size SUV was named Green Car of the Year last November. The new Ford Fusion Hybrid and Mercury Milan Hybrid beat the Toyota Camry Hybrid by 6 miles per gallon. In minivans, Chrysler is better than both Nissan and Toyota and basically tied with Honda.
GM, Ford and Chrysler have been restructuring their businesses over the past few years that included the loss of tens of thousands of jobs, a new labor contract with the UAW that will bring costs in line with foreign competitors in this country, and productivity gains that have put them on par with the competition. Ford was profitable in the first quarter of 2008 before the economic crisis began and has been working for two years to improve its balance sheet through aggressive restructuring while accelerating the development of new, safe, fuel-efficient and high quality products. GM has reduced structural costs in North America by $9 billion since 2005, eliminated raises and bonuses for executives and salaried employees, and aggressively addressed its manufacturing footprint, shifting from truck and SUVs to smaller cars and crossovers.
According to The Harbour Report, the manufacturing productivity bible of the industry, GM has more plants leading their respective segments in productivity than any other competitor, foreign or domestic.
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DECKER, M. E. (2004). Comparing Dissociative Ability of Musicians and Non-musicians. National Undergraduate Research Clearinghouse, 7. Available online at http://www.webclearinghouse.net/volume/. Retrieved July 17, 2019 .
Comparing Dissociative Ability of Musicians and Non-musicians
MELONIE E. DECKER
Guralnik, et al (2000) noted that neodissociation theories view dissociation as reflective of mechanisms all people use to varying degrees. Irwin (1999) said that psychological absorption is a total attention that involves a full commitment of available perceptual, motoric, imaginative and ideational resources to a unified representation of the attentional object. Colin Ross (1996) also notes that dissociation occurs in the general population in a bell-shaped curve. The current study is to discover whether musicians have a greater ability to dissociate and if they dissociate more than the average person. A total of 60 subjects, 30 students and faculty members who are performing musicians from the music department at Missouri Western State College and 30 students and faculty members who are non-musicians, were given a 20 question survey to determine their level of dissociation. It was discovered that there was no significant difference between the scores of musicians and non-musicians.
INTRODUCTION Comparing Dissociative Ability of Musicians and Non-MusiciansGuralnik, et al (2000) noted that neodissociation theories view dissociation as reflective of mechanisms all people use to varying degrees. The central premise is that dissociation involves a weakening of the highest order executive control functions that leave infrastructures more freedom to operate independently. Irwin (1999) explained, “Mental processes such as thoughts, memories, feelings, and a sense of identity are ordinarily integrated. Dissociation is defined as a structured separation of such processes.” Psychological absorption is the key nonpathological dimension of the dissociative domain. Irwin said that psychological absorption is a total attention that involves a full commitment of available perceptual, motoric, imaginative and ideational resources to a unified representation of the attentional object. The ability to achieve this state has a normal distribution in the general population and shows the same statistical characteristics of other personality traits or dimensions. Colin Ross also notes that dissociation occurs in the general population in a bell-shaped curve. Ross comments that at a movie theater, one can be so absorbed in a movie that one enters a dissociative state. One does not realize they are in an altered state of consciousness until the movie hits a dull patch or someone gets up to go for popcorn. This experience occurs within the absorption/imagination involvement factor of the Dissociative Experiences Scale (DES). A parent reading a child’s book aloud for the hundredth time may suddenly return to consciousness and become aware that they have completely blanked out the last three pages. This is an example of normal amnesia and belongs to the second DES factor. Many people who drive cars have had the experience of coming to, suddenly aware that they are amnesic for the last few blocks. It is also normal for the world and one’s self to become unreal as one falls asleep, when they are very tired, during extreme trauma, during a fever, or under the influence of some drugs. These fall within the depersonalization/derealization factor of the DES. Everyone daydreams and this too is a dissociative state. Without the desire for orgasm, the race would not be propagated. Such states are wonderful, desirable and healthy, in their natural form. That is why the psychiatry of dissociation has a goal of substituting healthy, normal altered states for self-destructive painful ones. Dissociation is a normal human function unless it crosses into the area of the diagnostic criteria where symptoms interfere with function or cause significant personal distress (Ross, 1996). Many articles and studies have discussed and studied the ability of athletes to dissociate, that is, to get “in the zone” which is a form of dissociation. This being in the zone is, as Irwin commented, a “total psychological absorption” in the task at hand. Dr. Matthew Gilmore, chairperson of the music department at Missouri Western State College, said that he believes musicians who are performing should be zoning, that is, being totally absorbed in their performance. Jerry Anderson, head of keyboard studies concurred, saying that musicians who zone perform better than those who do not and that zoning enhances memorization. The current study is to discover whether musicians have a greater ability to dissociate and if they dissociate more than the average person.
METHOD-None-
Data were collected from 30 students and faculty members at Missouri Western State College who are non-musicians. Data were also collected from 30 students and faculty members, in the music department of Missouri Western State College, who are performing musicians. The participants were given a survey containing 20 questions about dissociation
A survey was constructed to measure the level of dissociation of the participants. The survey contains 20 questions regarding dissociation and is based on a Likert-like scale. The questions could be answered by circling numbers from 1– never to 5– always. There were three questions dealing with age, gender and whether the participant is a musician or non-musician. The questions were formulated after reviewing the Dissociative Experiences Scale (DES) and the Dissociative Disorders Interview Schedule (DDIS). To view the Decker Dissociation Scale see Appendix A.
The Decker Dissociation Scale was administered to Group A, consisting of the 30 participants who are performing musicians, many of whom were students in Musicianship V class. It was also administered to Group B, consisting of the 30 participants who are non-musicians, many of whom were students in a Psychology 101 class. The scores between the two groups were compared using an independent-samples t test.
RESULTS The expected results were that musicians would have a better ability to dissociate and a higher level of dissociation than non-musicians. An independent-samples t test was calculated comparing the mean score of participants identified as musicians to the mean score of participants identified as non-musicians. No significance was found (t(58) = .173, p > .05). The mean of the musicians (m = 56.67, sd = 11.27) was not significantly different from the mean of the non-musicians (m = 56.20, sd = 9.60).
DISCUSSION The results of this study were surprising. Musicians seem to be absorbed in their music and to have more concentration when performing. Dr. Matthew Gilmore, chairperson of the music department at Missouri Western State College, had said that he believes musicians who are performing should be zoning, that is, being totally absorbed in their performance. Jerry Anderson, head of keyboard studies in the music department, concurred, saying that musicians who zone perform better than those who do not and that zoning enhances memorization. The results of this study, however, would indicate that musicians do not have a higher level of concentration than the average person. If this study were replicated the sample size could be increased. Also non-college persons could be surveyed. Perhaps college students and professors, or just being associated with higher education, results in a higher ability to dissociate; or perhaps being more dissociative results in seeking higher education. Although no statistics were calculated for them, it appears that older (i.e., over age 35) persons tended to have higher levels of dissociation. Also females appeared to be more dissociative, on the average, than males. In any replications, questions 1 and 20 should be replaced or removed because all participants tended to answer them at the higher end of the scale. It would appear that Colin Ross, H. J. Irwin and O. Guralnik were all correct when they said that everyone dissociates to some degree. Dissociation does appear to have a normal distribution, or bell-shaped curve occurrence, in the general population. Perhaps it is a personality trait that helps people survive traumas and helps untraumatized people to excel.
REFERENCES Guralnik, O., Schmeidler, J., & Simeon, D. (2000). Feeling unreal: Cognitive processes in depersonalization. American Journal of Psychiatry, 157, 103-109. Irwin, H. J. (1999). Pathological and nonpathological dissociation: The relevance of childhood trauma. Journal of Psychology, 133, 157-164.Ross, C. A. (1996). Dissociative Identity Disorder: Diagnosis, Clinical Features, and Treatment of Multiple Personality. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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Lowell, Massachusetts Information
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowell,_Massachusetts
City in Massachusetts, United States
City of Lowell
Left-right from top: Lowell City Hall, Lowell mills, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell Skyline
Mill City, Spindle City, City of Lights
"Art is the Handmaid of Human Good." [1]
Location in Middlesex County in Massachusetts
Show map of Massachusetts
Lowell (the United States)
LOWELL MASSACHUSETTS Latitude and Longitude:
A city
Manager-City council
William Samaras
• City Manager
Eileen Donoghue
102 ft (31 m)
8,090/sq mi (3,120/km2)
• Demonym
Lowellian
UTC−5 ( Eastern)
City of Lowell, Massachusetts
Lowell is a city in the U.S. Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Located in Middlesex County, Lowell (along with Cambridge) was a county seat until Massachusetts disbanded county government in 1999. [3] With an estimated population of 111,640 in 2018, [2] it was the fourth-largest city in Massachusetts as of the last census and is estimated to be the fifth-largest as of 2018, and the second-largest in the Boston metropolitan statistical area. [4] The city is also part of a smaller Massachusetts statistical area called Greater Lowell, as well as New England's Merrimack Valley region.
Incorporated in 1826 to serve as a mill town, Lowell was named after Francis Cabot Lowell, a local figure in the Industrial Revolution. The city became known as the cradle of the American Industrial Revolution, due to a large series of textile mills and factories. Many of the Lowell's historic manufacturing sites were later preserved by the National Park Service to create Lowell National Historical Park. [5] During the Cambodian genocide, the city took in an influx of refugees, leading to a Cambodia Town and America's second-largest Cambodian-American population. [6]
Lowell is home to two institutions of higher education.
2 Zoning, development and the Massachusetts Miracle
3.1 Physical
4.1 Crime
4.1.1 Statistics
4.1.2 History of anti-crime efforts
5.1 Colleges and universities
5.2 Primary and secondary schools
5.2.1 Public schools
5.2.2 Private schools
6 Libraries
6.1 Municipal
6.1.1 Pollard Memorial Library / Lowell City Library
6.2 University
6.2.1 Lydon Library
6.2.2 O'Leary Library
6.2.3 Center for Lowell History
7 Infrastructure
7.1 Transportation
8 Arts and culture
8.1 Monthly Calendar of Events and Entertainment
8.2 Annual events
8.3 Points of interest
8.4 Culture
8.5 Museums and public galleries
8.6 Interactive and live performances
9 Sports, Teams and Athletic Venues
9.1 Boxing
9.2 Teams
9.3 Athletic Venues
10 Government
11.1 Newspaper
11.2 Radio
11.3 Cable
12 Businesses started and/or products invented in Lowell
12.1 Current
12.2 Historical
12.3 Lowell Banks and Financial Institutions (current)
12.4 Lowell Banks and Financial Institutions (closed)
14 Twin towns and sister cities
15 Honors
18.1 Primary sources
The Massachusetts Mill at the confluence of the Merrimack and Concord Rivers; across the Cox Bridge are the Boott Mills; in the upper left is the historic Lowell Sun building with its iconic sign on top.
Main articles: History of Lowell, Massachusetts and Timeline of Lowell, Massachusetts
Founded in the 1820s as a planned manufacturing center for textiles, Lowell is located along the rapids of the Merrimack River, 25 miles northwest of Boston in what was once the farming community of East Chelmsford, Massachusetts. The so-called Boston Associates, including Nathan Appleton and Patrick Tracy Jackson of the Boston Manufacturing Company, named the new mill town after their visionary leader, Francis Cabot Lowell, [7] who had died five years before its 1823 incorporation. As Lowell's population grew, it acquired land from neighboring towns, and diversified into a full-fledged urban center. Many of the men who composed the labor force for constructing the canals and factories had immigrated from Ireland, escaping the poverty and Potato Famines of the 1830s and 1840s. The mill workers, young single women called Mill Girls, generally came from the farm families of New England.
Saint Anne's Episcopal Church, built 1824
By the 1850s, Lowell had the largest industrial complex in the United States. The textile industry wove cotton produced in the South. In 1860, there were more cotton spindles in Lowell than in all eleven states combined that would form the Confederacy. [8] Yet the city did not simply finish raw materials produced in the American South, but rather became involved in the South in another way, too. Many of the coarse cottons produced in Lowell eventually returned to the South to clothe enslaved people, and, according to historian Sven Beckert, "'Lowell' became the generic term slaves used to describe coarse cottons." [9] The city continued to thrive as a major industrial center during the 19th century, attracting more migrant workers and immigrants to its mills. Next were the Catholic Germans, followed by a large influx of French Canadians during the 1870s and 1880s. Later waves of immigrants included Portuguese, Polish, Lithuanians, Swedes, Greeks, and eastern European Jews. They came to work in Lowell and settled in ethnic neighborhoods, with the city's population reaching almost 50% foreign-born by 1900. [10] By the time World War I broke out in Europe, the city had reached its economic and population peak of over 110,000 people.
The Mill Cities' manufacturing base declined as companies began to relocate to the South in the 1920s. [10] The city fell into hard times, and was even referred to as a "depressed industrial desert" by Harper's Magazine in 1931, as the Great Depression worsened. At this time, more than one-third of its population was "on relief", as only three of its major textile corporations remained active. [10] Several years later, the mills were reactivated, making parachutes and other military necessities for the World War II effort. However, this economic boost was short-lived and the post-war years saw the last textile plants close.
Mills sat abandoned after industry left the city in the early twentieth century.
Zoning, development and the Massachusetts Miracle
In the 1970s, Lowell became part of the Massachusetts Miracle, being the headquarters of Wang Laboratories. At the same time, Lowell became home to thousands of new immigrants, many from Cambodia, following the genocide at the hands of the Khmer Rouge. The city continued to rebound, but this time, focusing more on culture. The former mill district along the river was partially restored and became part of the Lowell National Historical Park, founded in the late 1970s.
Former mill agent's house
Although Wang went bankrupt in 1992, the city continued its cultural focus by hosting the nation's largest free folk festival, the Lowell Folk Festival, as well as many other cultural events. This effort began to attract other companies and families back to the urban center. Additional historic manufacturing and commercial buildings were adapted as residential units and office space. By the 1990s, Lowell had built a new ballpark and arena, which became home to two minor league sports teams, the Lowell Devils and Lowell Spinners. The city also began to have a larger student population. The University of Massachusetts Lowell and Middlesex Community College expanded their programs and enrollment. During the period of time when Lowell was part of the Massachusetts Miracle, the Lowell City Development Authority created a Comprehensive Master Plan which included recommendations for zoning adaptations within the city. The city's original zoning code was adopted in 1926 and was significantly revised in 1966 and 2004, with changes included to respond to concerns about overdevelopment. [11]
In 2002, in lieu of updating the Comprehensive Master Plan, more broad changes were recommended so that the land use and development would be consistent with the current master plan. The most significant revision to the 1966 zoning code is the adoption of an inclusion of a transect-based zoning code and some aspects of a form-based code style of zoning that emphasizes urban design elements as a means to ensure that infill development will respect the character of the neighborhood or district in question. By 2004, the recommended zoning changes were unanimously adopted by the City Council and despite numerous changes to the 2004 Zoning Code, it remains the basic framework for resolving zoning issues in Lowell to this day. [12]
Pawtucket Canal
The Hamilton Canal District (HCD) is the first district in Lowell in which regulation and development is defined by Form-Based Code (HCD-FBC) and legislated by its own guiding framework consistent to the HCD Master Plan. [13] The HCD is a major redevelopment project that comprises 13-acres of vacant, underutilized land in downtown Lowell abutting former industrial mills. Trinity Financial was elected as the Master Developer to recreate this district with a vision of making a mixed-use neighborhood. Development plans included establishing the HCD as a gateway to downtown Lowell and enhanced connectivity to Gallagher Terminal. [14] [15]
Aerial view of LeLacheur Park and the UMass-Lowell campus
Lowell in 1876
Lowell is located at 42°38′22″N 71°18′53″W / 42.63944°N 71.31472°W / 42.63944; -71.31472 (42.639444, -71.314722). [16] According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 14.5 square miles (38 km2).13.8 square miles (35.7 km²) of it is land and 0.8 square miles (2.1 km2) of it (5.23%) is water.
Central Lowell's canal system (1975) The city limits extend in all directions from this central core.
Lowell is located at the confluence of the Merrimack and Concord rivers. The Pawtucket Falls, a mile-long set of rapids with a total drop in elevation of 32 feet, ends where the two rivers meet. At the top of the falls is the Pawtucket Dam, designed to turn the upper Merrimack into a millpond, diverted through Lowell's extensive canal system.
The Merrimack, which flows southerly from Franklin, New Hampshire to Lowell, makes a northeasterly turn there before emptying into the Atlantic Ocean at Newburyport, Massachusetts, approximately 40 miles downriver from Lowell. It is believed that in prior ages, the Merrimack continued south from Lowell to empty into the ocean somewhere near Boston. The glacial deposits that redirected the flow of the river left the drumlins that dot the city, most notably, Fort Hill in the Belvidere neighborhood. Other large hills in Lowell include Lynde Hill, also in Belvidere, and Christian Hill, in the easternmost part of Centralville at the Dracut town line.
The Concord, or Musketaquid (its original name), forms from the confluence of the Assabet and Sudbury rivers at Concord, Massachusetts. This river flows north into the city, and the area around the confluence with the Merrimack was known as Wamesit. Like the Merrimack, the Concord, although a much smaller river, has many waterfalls and rapids that served as power sources for early industrial purposes, some well before the founding of Lowell. Immediately after the Concord joins the Merrimack, the Merrimack descends another ten feet in Hunt's Falls.
There is a ninety-degree bend in the Merrimack partway down the Pawtucket Falls. At this point, the river briefly widens and shallows. Here, Beaver Brook enters from the north, separating the City's two northern neighborhoods, Pawtucketville and Centralville. Entering the Concord River from the southwest is River Meadow, or Hale's Brook. This brook flows largely in a man-made channel, as the Lowell Connector was built along it. Both of these minor streams have limited industrial histories as well.
The bordering towns (clockwise from north) are Dracut, Tewksbury, Billerica, Chelmsford, and Tyngsborough. The border with Billerica is a point in the middle of the Concord River where Lowell and Billerica meet Tewksbury and Chelmsford.
The ten communities designated part of the Lowell Metropolitan area by the 2000 US Census are Billerica, Chelmsford, Dracut, Dunstable, Groton, Lowell, Pepperell, Tewksbury, Tyngsborough, and Westford, and Pelham, NH. See Greater Lowell.
The Acre neighborhood
Lowell has eight distinct neighborhoods: the Acre, Back Central, Belvidere, Centralville, Downtown, Highlands, Pawtucketville, and South Lowell. [17] The city also has five ZIP codes: four are geographically distinct general ZIP codes, and one (01853) is for post-office boxes only.
The Centralville neighborhood, ZIP Code 01850, is the northeastern section of the city, north of the Merrimack River and east of Beaver Brook. Christian Hill is the section of Centralville east of Bridge Street.
The Highlands, ZIP Code 01851, is the most populated neighborhood, with almost a quarter of the city residing here. It is located in the southwestern section of the city, bordered to the east by the Lowell Connector and to the north by the railroad. Lowellians further distinguish the sections of the Highlands as the Upper Highlands and the Lower Highlands, the latter being the area closer to downtown. Middlesex Village, Tyler Park, and Drum Hill are in this ZIP Code. The Upper Highlands also includes the University of Massachusetts Lowell, South Campus (Fine Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, Health Sciences & Education).
Downtown, Belvidere, Back Central, and South Lowell make up the 01852 ZIP Code, and are the southeastern sections of the city (south of the Merrimack River and southeast of the Lowell Connector). Belvidere is the mostly residential area south of the Merrimack River, east of the Concord River, and north of the Lowell and Lawrence railroad. Belvidere Hill is a Historic District along Fairmount Street. Lower Belvidere is the section west of Nesmith Street. Back Central is an urban area south of downtown, toward the mouth of River Meadow Brook. South Lowell is the area south of the railroad and east of the Concord River. Other neighborhoods in this ZIP Code are Ayers City, Bleachery, Chapel Hill, the Grove, Oaklands, Riverside Park, Swede Village, and Wigginville. Although the use of the names of these smaller neighborhoods has been in decline in the past decades, there has been recently a reemergence of their use. Downtown Lowell includes the UMass Lowell East Campus which consists of university housing, recreation facilities, research and the university's sports arena, as well as the Middlesex Community College.
Pawtucketville, the University of Massachusetts Lowell, North Campus; and the Acre make up the 01854 ZIP Code. The Northwestern portion of the city includes the neighborhood where Jack Kerouac resided around the area of University Avenue (previously known as Moody Street). The North Campus of UMass Lowell (Colleges of Engineering, Sciences and Business) is in Pawtucketville near the Lowell General Hospital. The older parts of the neighborhood are around University Avenue and Mammoth Road, whereas the newer parts are around Varnum Avenue. Middle and elementary schools for this area include Wang Middle School, Pawtucketville Memorial, McAvinnue Elementary School, and private school Ste Jeanne d'Arc. Pawtucketville is the official entrance to the Lowell-Dracut-Tyngsborough State Forest, the site of an historic Native American tribe, and in the age of the Industrial Revolution was a prominent source of granite used in canals and factory foundations. [18]
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6,474 —
20,796 +221.2%
33,383 +60.5%
106,294 +11.9%
112,759 +6.1%
100,234 −11.1%
97,249 −4.1%
94,239 +2.3%
* = population estimate.
Source: United States Census records and Population Estimates Program data. [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] [27] [28] [29]
Source: U.S. Decennial Census [30]
Population Density: According to the 2010 Census, [31] there were 106,519 people residing in the city. The population density was 7,842.1 people per square mile (2,948.8/km²). There were 41,431 housing units at an average density of 2,865.5 per square mile (1,106.7/km²).
Household Size: 2010, there were 38,470 households, and 23,707 families living in Lowell; the average household size was 2.66 and the average family size was 3.31. Of those households, 34.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 35.9% were married couples living together, 14.7% had a female householder with no husband present, 38.4% were non-families, 29.4% of all households were made up of individuals, and 8.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. [31]
Age Distributions: Lowell has also experienced a significant increase in the number of residents between the ages of 50-69 while the percentages of residents under the age of 15 and over the age of 70 decreased. [32] In 2010 the city's population had a median age of 32.6. [33] The age distribution was 23.7% of the population under the age of 18, 13.5% from 18 to 24, 29.4% from 25 to 44, 23.3% from 45 to 64, and 10.1% who were 65 years of age or older. For every 100 females, there were 98.6 males; while for every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 97.6 males. [33]
Median Income: for a household in the city was $51,714, according to the American Community Survey 5-year estimate ending in 2012. [34] The median income for a family was $55,852. Males had a median income of $44,739 versus $35,472 for females. The per capita income for the city was $22,730. About 15.2% of families and 17.5% of individuals were below the poverty line, including 24.5% of those under age 18 and 13.2% of those age 65 or over. [35]
Racial Makeup: In 2010, the ethnic diversity of the city was 60.3% White (49.3% Non-Hispanic White [36]), 20.2% Asian American (12.5% Cambodian, 2.0% Indian, 1.7% Vietnamese, 1.4% Laotian), 6.8% African American, 0.3% Native American, 8.8% from other races, 3.6% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 17.3% of the population. The largest Hispanic group was those of Puerto Rican ancestry, comprising 11.3% of the population.
African Immigrants: In 2010 there were about 6,000 people of recent African heritage living in Lowell making up nearly the entire African American population of the city. [37] These immigrants come from a wide range of countries including Liberia, Kenya, Ghana and Togo.
Cambodian-American Population: In 2010, Lowell had the highest proportion of residents of Cambodian origin of any place in the United States, at 12.5% of the population. The Government of Cambodia had opened up its third U.S. Consular Office in Lowell, on April 27, 2009, with Sovann Ou as current advisor to the Cambodian Embassy. [38] The other consular offices are in Long Beach, California, and Seattle, Washington, which also have large Cambodian communities.
Police station in the city's Highlands neighborhood
The City of Lowell is primarily policed and protected by the Lowell Police Department, the University Police: UMass Lowell, and the National Park Service Police. The Massachusetts State Police and Middlesex County Sheriff's Office also work with local law enforcement to set up driver checkpoints for alcohol awareness. With the growth of UMass Lowell and the impact of its faculty and students in areas of scientific research, engineering, and nursing, the city has seen rapid gentrification of several neighborhoods.
According to current FBI Crime Data Analysis, Lowell is the 4th safest city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, for all sizes, [39] the violent crime rate for Lowell was less than half of the violent crime rate in Boston, with no murders compared to 49 in Boston. Lowell's crime rate has dropped tremendously since the 1990s, and while the likelihood of becoming a victim of violent crime in Massachusetts are 1 in 265, the odds in Lowell are 1 in 289, making Lowell (approximately) 10% safer than the rest of the state, on average. [40] Lowell's violent crime rate is comparable to Honolulu, HI and is less than one-quarter that of Washington, D.C. [41]
In 2017, you were more likely to be a crime victim in Cambridge, MA than in Lowell (due to the high incidence of property crimes in Cambridge). [42] [43]
History of anti-crime efforts
The Lowell Police Department has made positive progress in bringing the crime rates down in recent years. In the 1990s, Lowell had been locally notorious for being a place of high drug trafficking and gang activity, and was the setting for a real life documentary, High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell. In the years from 1994 to 1999, crime dropped 50 percent, the highest rate of decrease for any city in America with over 100,000 residents. [44]
Within one generation, by 2009, Lowell was ranked as the 139th most dangerous city of over 75,000 residents in the United States, out of 393 communities. Out of Massachusetts cities, nine are larger than 75,000 residents, and Lowell was fifth. [45] For comparison Lowell was still rated safer than Boston (104 of 393), Providence, RI (123), Springfield (51), Lynn (120), Fall River (103), and New Bedford (85), but rated more dangerous than Cambridge (303), Newton (388), Quincy (312), and Worcester (175). [45]
With a rapidly growing student population, Lowell has been considered an emerging college town. [46] With approximately 12,000 students at Middlesex Community College (MCC) and 18,500 students at University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell is currently home to more than 30,000 undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students, and the location of some of the top research laboratories in Massachusetts. UMass Lowell is the second largest state university and fifth largest university in Massachusetts, while MCC is the second largest Associate's college in Massachusetts. [47]
Middlesex Community College
Recreation Center at UMass Lowell
Lowell Public Schools operates district public schools. Lowell High School is the district public school. Non-district public schools include Greater Lowell Technical High School, Lowell Middlesex Academy Charter School, [48] Lowell Community Charter Public School, [49] [50] and Lowell Collegiate Charter School. [51]
Lowell Public Schools is an above average, public school district located in Lowell, MA. It has 14,247 students in grades PK, K-12 with a student-teacher ratio of 14 to 1. [52]
Lowell High School students have the opportunity to take Advanced Placement® course work and exams. The AP® participation rate at Lowell High is 29 percent. The student body makeup is 50 percent male and 50 percent female, and the total minority enrollment is 68 percent with a student-teacher ratio of 14 to 1. [53]
Teacher/Student Ratio
Community Christian Academy K-8 185 1:9
Hellenic American Academy K-8 135 1:12
Immaculate Conception School K-8 324 1:17
Lowell Catholic High School
Riverside School (Non-sectarian SPED) 4-11 25 1:5
St. Louis School (CLOSED) K-8 457 1:19
St. Michael Elementary School K-8 407 1:16
St. Patrick School K-8 181 1:15
St. Stanislaus School [54] K-8 124 1:12
Ste Jeanne d'Arc School, est. 1910 [55] K-8 375 1:17
St. Margaret School (CLOSED) K-8 1:20
Franco-American School, est. 1963 (CLOSED) [56] K-8 1:13
Pollard Memorial Library in August 2011
Pollard Memorial Library / Lowell City Library
Main article: Pollard Memorial Library
The first Lowell public library was established in 1844 with 3,500 volumes, and was set up in the first floor of the Old City Hall, 226 Merrimack St. In 1872, the expanding collection was relocated down the street to the Hosford Building [57] at 134 Merrimack St. In 1890–1891, the City of Lowell hired local Architect Frederick W. Stickney to design the new Lowell City Library, known as "Memorial Hall, in honor of the city's men who lost their lives in the American Civil War. [58] [59] In 1981, the library was renamed the Pollard Memorial Library in memory of the late Mayor Samuel S. Pollard. And, in the mid-2000s the century-old National Historic building underwent a major $8.5m renovation. [60] The city also expanded the library system to include the Senior Center Branch, located in the City of Lowell Senior Center. [61]
In fiscal year 2008, the city of Lowell spent 0.36% ($975,845) of its budget on its public libraries, which houses 236,000 volumes, and is a part of the Merrimack Valley Library Consortium. Currently, circulation of materials averages around 250,000 annually, with approximately one-third deriving from the children's collection. [58] [62] In fiscal year 2009, Lowell spent 0.35% ($885,377) of its budget on the library—some $8 per person. [63]
As of 2012, the Pollard Library purchases access for its patrons to databases owned by: EBSCO Industries; Gale, of Cengage Learning; Heritage Archives, Inc.; New England Historic Genealogical Society; OverDrive, Inc.; ProQuest; and World Trade Press. [64]
Lydon Library
The Lydon Library is a part of the University of Massachusetts Lowell system, and is located on the North Campus. The building is named in honor of President Martin J. Lydon, whose vision expanded and renamed the college during his tenure in the 1950s and 1960s. [65] Its current collection concentrates on the sciences, engineering, business management, social sciences, humanities, and health. [66]
O'Leary Library
The O'Leary Library is a part of the University of Massachusetts Lowell system, and is located on the South Campus. The building is named in honor of former History Professor and then President O'Leary, whose vision helped merge the Lowell colleges during his tenure in the 1970s and 1980s. [67] Its current collection concentrates on music and art. [68]
Center for Lowell History
The Center for Lowell History [special collections and archives] is a part of the University of Massachusetts Lowell system, established in 1971 to assure the safekeeping, preservation, and availability for study and research of materials in unique subject areas, particularly those related to the Greater Lowell Area and the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Located downtown in the Patrick J. Mogan Cultural Center at 40 French Street, the Center is committed to the design and implementation of historical, educational, and cultural programs that link the university and the community in developing an economically strong and multi-culturally rich region. Its current collections and archives focus on historic and contemporary issues of Lowell (including: industrialization, textile technology, immigration, social history, regional history, labor history, women's history, and environmental history). [69]
A bus of the Lowell Regional Transit Authority
Lowell can be reached by automobile from Interstate 495, U.S. Route 3, the Lowell Connector, and Massachusetts Routes: 3A, 38, 110, 113, and 133, all of which run through the city; Route 133 begins at the spot where Routes 110 and 38 branch off just south of the Merrimack River. [70] There are six bridges crossing the Merrimack River in Lowell, and four crossing the Concord River (not including the two for I-495).
For public transit, Lowell is served by the Lowell Regional Transit Authority (LRTA), which provides fixed route bus services and paratransit services to the city and surrounding area. OurBus has daily bus service to Worcester and New York City. Other service includes Merrimack Vallery Regional Transfer Authority (MVRTA) Route 41 to Lawrence, and the Sunshine Travel bus to Mohegan Sun.
Lowell is also served by the MBTA's commuter rail Lowell Line, with several departures daily to and from Boston's North Station.
The Lowell National Historical Park provides a free streetcar shuttle between its various sites in the city center, using track formerly used to provide freight access to the city's mills. An expansion to expand the system to 6.9 miles was planned but rejected in 2016. [71]
In addition to several car rental agencies, Lowell has four (4) Zipcar rental locations convenient to Gallagher Terminal, the Downtown, and the three (3) University campuses (North, South and East).
Lowell General Hospital
Saints Medical Center
The Boott Cotton Mill Museum and Trolley
Monthly Calendar of Events and Entertainment
Click Link to See Current Events and Entertainment
Click Link to See Weekly Live Music Events
Click Link for Tsongas Center Events
February: Winterfest - celebration of winter. (Also, Lowell's Birthday)
March: Lowell Women's Week [72] - A week of events recognizing women's achievements, struggles, and contributions to the Lowell community past and present. Irish Cultural Week - A celebration of Irish history and hulture within the Greater Lowell community.
April: Lowell Film Festival [73]- Showcases documentary and feature-length films focusing on a variety of topics of interest to the Greater Lowell community and beyond
May: Doors Open Lowell [74] - A celebration of preservation, architecture, and design where many historic buildings that normally have limited public access are open for viewing
June: African Festival [75] - A celebration of the various African communities in and around Lowell
July: Lowell Folk Festival - A three-day free folk music and traditional arts festival attended by on average 250,000 people on the last weekend in July
August: Lowell Southeast Asian Water Festival [76] - celebrates Southeast Asian culture
September: Lowell Kinetic Sculpture Race [77] - From the crossroads of Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics comes a spectacular racing spectacle!
October: Lowell Celebrates Kerouac Festival [78] - A celebration of the works of Jack Kerouac and his roots in the city of Lowell
October: Bay State Marathon and half marathon
The National Park Boat Tour
Among the many tourist attractions, Lowell also currently has 39 places on the National Register of Historic Places including many buildings and structures as part of the Lowell National Historical Park.
"A Mother's Hands" Armenian Genocide memorial outside of Lowell City Hall.
Lowell National Historical Park: Maintains Lowell's history as an early manufacturing and immigrant city. Exhibits include weave rooms, a waterpower exhibit, and paths along 5.6 miles of largely restored canals.
Lowell-Dracut-Tyngsboro State Forest: Hiking, biking, and cross-country skiing trails in an urban state forest
University of Massachusetts Lowell: State University
University of Massachusetts Lowell Radiation Laboratory: The site of a small nuclear reactor at the school
Vandenberg Esplanade: Walking, biking, swimming, and picnicking park along the banks of the Merrimack River. Contains the Sampas Pavilion.
Western Avenue Studios: [79] Largest complex of artists studios in the United States at 122 Western Avenue.
Jack Kerouac's birthplace: In the Centralville section of the city at 9 Lupine Road.
Armenian Genocide Memorial: "A Mother's Hands" Monument at Lowell City Hall.
Bette Davis's birthplace: In the Highlands section of the city at 22 Chester Street.
Rosalind Elias's birthplace: In the Acre neighborhood at 144 School Street .
Lowell Cemetery: burial site of many of Lowell's wealthy industrialists from the Victorian era, as well as several U.S. Congressmen, a Massachusetts Governor, John McFarland, and a U.S. Senator. 77 Knapp Avenue.
Edson Cemetery: burial site of Jack Kerouac and William Preston Phelps. Location of a monument dedicated to Chief Passaconaway. 1375 Gorham Street.
The Acre: Lowell's gateway neighborhood where waves of immigrants have established their communities.
Yorick Building: Former home of the gentlemen's club the "Yorick Club", currently a restaurant & function facility (Cobblestones).
Little Cambodia: In 2010, the city began an effort to make it a tourist destination. [80]
Lowell Memorial Auditorium
In the early years of the 1840s when the population quickly exceeded 20,000, Lowell became very active as a cultural center, with the construction of the Lowell Museum, the Mechanics Hall, as well as the new City Hall used for art exhibits, lectures, and for the performing arts. The Lowell Museum was lost in a devastating fire in the early morning of January 31, 1856, [81] but was quickly rehoused in a new location. The Lowell Art Association was founded in 1876, and the new Opera House was built in 1889. [82] Continuing to inspire and entertain, Lowell currently has a plethora of artistic exhibitions and performances throughout a wide range of venues in the city:
The Boott Cotton Mill and Museum
Museums and public galleries
119 Gallery [83]
Arts League of Lowell & All Gallery [84]
The American Textile History Museum (closed in 2016) [85]
Ayer Lofts [86] Artist Live-work Lofts
The Boott Cotton Mills Museum: Lowell National Historic Park
Brush Art Gallery and Studios [87]
Gallery Z & Artist Cooperative [88]
The Lowell Gallery [89]
Mill No. 5 - an eclectic indoor mall/streetscape featuring artisanal foods and hand-made items, live music and The Luna Theater, and independent film venue. [90]
National Streetcar Museum [91]
The New England Quilt Museum [92]
Patrick J. Mogan Cultural Center: Lowell National Historic Park
Whistler House Museum of Art - Art museum in birthplace of James McNeill Whistler.
Western Avenue Studios (The Loading Dock Galleries) [93] - A converted mill with over 300 working artists and musicians.
UMass Lowell Galleries [94]
Interactive and live performances
Angkor Dance Troupe [95] - Cambodian classical and folk dance company and youth program [96]
Arts League of Lowell [97]
Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell [98] - local history library and archive
The Gentlemen Songsters [99] The Lowell Chapter of The Barbershop Harmony Society -Causing Harmony In The Merrimack Valley.
The Hi Hat - acoustic performance stage located at Mill No. 5.
The Luna Theater - Independent film theater opened in 2014 and located inside Mill No. 5.
Lowell Memorial Auditorium - Mid-sized venue for live performances.
Lowell Philharmonic Orchestra [100] - Community orchestra presenting free concerts and offering youth programs
Lowell Poetry Network [101] - A network of area poets and appreciators of poetry who host readings, receptions, and open mics.
Lowell Rocks [102] - Lowell nightlife and entertainment web site promoting performances at local bars and clubs
Lowell Summer Music Series [103] - Boarding House Park
Merrimack Repertory Theater - Professional equity theater
Play by Player's Theatre Company - critically acclaimed community theater
RRRecords - Internationally known record label and store
Sampas Pavilion - Outdoor amphitheater on the banks of the Merrimack River
Standing Room Only Players - musical review troupe
UMass Lowell Department of Music Performances [104]
The United Teen Equality Center [105] A by teens, for teens youth center promoting peace, positivity and empowerment for young people in Lowell.
UnchARTed [106] - Gallery, studios, cafe, bar, and performance space in downtown Lowell
Sports, Teams and Athletic Venues
Ramalho's West End Gym trains the city's boxers.
Boxing has formed an important part of Lowell's working-class culture. The city's auditorium hosts the annual New England Golden Gloves tournament, which featured fighters such as Rocky Marciano, Sugar Ray Leonard, and Marvin Hagler. Micky Ward and Dicky Eklund both began their careers in Lowell, the subject of the 2010 film The Fighter. [107] Arthur Ramahlo's West End Gym is where many of the city's boxers train. [108]
University of Massachusetts Lowell River Hawks, NCAA Division I Hockey, Soccer, Basketball, Baseball, Softball, Track & Field, Field Hockey, Volleyball
Lowell Spinners - Class A short-season professional baseball affiliate of the Boston Red Sox
Lowell All-Americans - NECBL (Collegiate Summer Baseball)
New England Riptide - National Pro Fastpitch League (Major League Softball)
Lowell Nor'easter [109] - Semi-Professional football team ( New England Football League)
Greater Lowell United FC - Semi-Pro soccer team ( NPSL) [110] [111]
Tsongas Center at UMass Lowell
LeLacheur Park, home of the Lowell Spinners baseball team
Edward A. LeLacheur Park Baseball Stadium, shared by Lowell Spinners and the University of Massachusetts Lowell
Lowell Memorial Auditorium - performance and boxing venue.
Tsongas Center at UMass Lowell - multi-use sports and concert venue (6500 seats hockey, 7800 concerts)- the University of Massachusetts Lowell River Hawks, and various arena shows. On April 1, 2006, the arena held the 2006 World Curling Championships.
Cawley Memorial Stadium- Stadium for Lowell High School and other sporting events around the Merrimack Valley. Uses FieldTurf. Home of the MICCA Marching Band Championship Finals
Stoklosa Alumni Field - Baseball stadium, used by Lowell All-Americans (4,000 seats)
Costello Athletic Center indoor arena on campus of the University of Massachusetts Lowell
UMass Lowell Bellgarde Boathouse [112] used as a rowing and kayaking center for UMass Lowell and the greater Lowell area
Long Meadow Golf Club [113] - Private 9 hole Golf course in the Belvidere neighborhood
Mount Pleasant Golf Club [114] - Private 9 hole Golf course in the Highlands neighborhood
Lowell City Council (as of 1/3/18) [115]
Karen Cirillo (Jan. 2018–present)
David Conway (Jan. 2018–present)
Rodney M. Elliott (Jan. 1998–present)**
John Leahy (Sept. 2012–present)
Edward J. Kennedy, Jr. (Jan. 1978-Jan. 1986, Jan. 2012–present)**
Rita M. Mercier (Jan. 1996–present)**
James Milinazzo (Jan. 2004-Jan. 2012, Jan. 2014–present)**
Vesna Nuon (Jan. 2012-Jan. 2014, Jan. 2018–present)^
William Samaras (Jan. 2014–present)*
* =current mayor
^ =deputy mayor
**=former mayor
See also: List of mayors of Lowell, Massachusetts
Lowell has a Plan-E council-manager government. [116] There are nine city councilors and six school committee members, all elected by plurality-at-large in a non-partisan election. In 1957, Lowell voters repealed a single-transferable-vote system, which had been in place since 1943. [117] Lowell is the last city in Massachusetts to use a fully plurality-at-large system due to its impact in diluting minority voting power, and the City is currently defending against a Federal Voting Rights lawsuit.
The City Council chooses one of its members as mayor, and another as vice-mayor. The role of the mayor is ceremonial, but s/he runs the weekly meetings under the guidance of the City Clerk. In addition, the mayor serves as the Chairperson of the School Committee.
The administrative head of the city government is the City Manager, who is responsible for all day-to-day operations, functioning within the guidelines of City Council policy, and is hired by and serves indefinitely at the pleasure of at least 5 of 9 City Councilors. As of April 2017, the City Manager is Eileen M. Donghue replacing Kevin J. Murphy. [118] [119]
Lowell is represented in the Massachusetts General Court by State Representatives Thomas Golden, Jr. (D- 16th Middlesex), David Nangle (D- 17th Middlesex), Rady Mom (D- 18th Middlesex), and by State Senator Edward J. Kennedy (1st Middlesex) who is also a City Councilor. Federally, the city is part of Massachusetts's 3rd congressional district and represented by Lori Trahan (D). The state's senior member of the United States Senate is Elizabeth Warren (D). The state's junior member of the United States Senate is Ed Markey (D).
In July 2012, Lowell youth led a nationally reported campaign to gain voting privileges for 17-year-olds in local elections; it would have been the first municipality to do so. [120] [121] The 'Vote 17' campaign was supported by national researchers; its goals were to increase voter turnout, create lifelong civic habits, and increase youth input in local matters. [122] The effort was led by youth at the United Teen Equality Center in downtown Lowell. [105]
Lowell City Hall
Registered Voters and Party Enrollment as of February 15, 2012 [123]
Number of Voters
Democratic 20,420 40.48%
Republican 4,542 9.00%
Unenrolled 25,110 49.78%
Other 374 0.74%
The Sun is the city's daily newspaper.
The Sun, headquartered in downtown Lowell, is a major daily newspaper serving Greater Lowell and southern New Hampshire. The newspaper had an average daily circulation of about 42,900 copies in 2011. [124] Continuing a trend of concentration of newspaper ownership, The Sun was sold to newspaper conglomerate MediaNews Group in 1997 after 119 years of family ownership. [125]
WCAP AM 980, talk radio
WLLH AM 1400 Spanish Tropical
WUML FM 91.5, UMass Lowell-owned station
WCRB FM 99.5, Classical music, licensed to Lowell
Lowell Telecommunication Corporation [126] (LTC) - A community media and technology center
Businesses started and/or products invented in Lowell
The Massachusetts Medical Device Development Center (M2D2) Biotechnology Lab offers 11,000 square feet of fully equipped, shared lab facilities that can house 50 researchers and also includes plenty of co-working and meeting spaces. [127]
The UMASS Lowell Innovation Hub [128] (iHUB) offer entrepreneurs, startups, technology companies and established manufacturing partners 24-hour access to all the amenities they need to get their businesses up and running, such as:
dedicated office space
rapid prototype development equipment and services
open co-working and collaboration space, and
meeting and conferencing space.
Cash Carriers: William Stickney Lamson of Lowell patented this system in 1881.
CVS/pharmacy: originally named the Consumer Value Store was founded in Lowell in 1963.
Father John's Medicine [129] a cough medicine that was first formulated in the United States in a Lowell pharmacy in 1855.
Francis Turbine - A highly efficient water-powered turbine
Fred C. Church Insurance (est. 1865) [130]
Market Basket - Chain of approximately 70 grocery stores in Massachusetts and New Hampshire
Moxie - the first mass-produced soft drink in the U.S.
Telephone numbers, 1879, Lowell is the first U.S. city to have phone numbers, two years after Alexander Graham Bell demonstrates his telephone in Lowell. [131]
Stuarts Department Stores
Wang Laboratories - Massachusetts Miracle computer company
Lowell Banks and Financial Institutions (current)
In 1854, The Lowell Five Cent Savings Bank was founded as the first and only bank in the city that would accept a deposit of less than $1.00. It is the 73rd oldest Bank in America and has been in continuous operation since founding. [132] [133]
In 1885, the Lowell Co-operative Bank was founded. Now Sage Bank, it is one of the oldest still functioning banks in Massachusetts. [134] [135]
In 1892, Washington Savings Bank made its first home in Lowell, MA and has continuously served the Greater Lowell area and communities. [136] [137]
In 1989, Enterprise Bank and Trust was founded in Lowell and is the largest financial institution. [138]
In 1911, Jeanne D'Arc Credit Union was founded in Lowell and is the 5th largest Credit Union in Massachusetts. [139] [140]
In 1922, Align Credit Union was founded in Lowell. [141]
In 1936, the Lowell Firefighters Credit Union was founded in Lowell. [142]
In 1937, the Lowell Municipal Employees FCU was founded in Lowell. [143]
In 1958, Mills42 Federal Credit Union was founded in Lowell. [144]
Lowell Banks and Financial Institutions (closed)
Lowell Bank and Trust Company (1970–1983; now part of Bank of America) [145]
Lowell Institution for Savings (1829–1991; now part of TD Banknorth N.A.) [146]
Butler Bank (1901–2010; now part of People's United Bank) [147] [148]
See List of People from Lowell, Massachusetts
Twin towns and sister cities
Saint-Dié-des-Vosges France 1989
Berdiansk Ukraine 1997
Bamenda [149] [150] Cameroon 2002
Limerick City Ireland 2013
Phnom Penh Cambodia 2015
2010, Lowell designated as a "Green Community" [151]
1997 and 1998, Lowell was a finalist for the All-American City award. [152]
1999, Lowell received an All-American City award. [152]
Massachusetts portal
List of mill towns in Massachusetts
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Savard, Rita, "Three Hard Words: I Need Help: Jobs gone and bills mounting, many more in Greater Lowell seek food aid", The Lowell Sun, January 22, 2010
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Back at Ivy Lane, Bunny poured a glass of Chablis and walked around the house, taking note of items she thought were out of place. Then it hit her - the main thing that was different. When she first moved in, she remembered over the mantle in the living room were two portraits, one of each daughter when they were 5 or 6. She looked now and saw there were 2 paintings of coats of arms. Bunny assumed to be of the family.
She called Mike. "Some time tomorrow, can you come out to the house. There is something I want you to see. "
"Well, I'm about a mile from there, you want me to stop by now?"
"That would be even better. Thanks."
5 minutes later Mike was knocking on the door. Bunny opened the door. "What's up?" Mike said as he walked in.
"It's more like what's not up." She walked him through the rooms and showed him her concerns. When they finished, Mike asked, "Any ideas?"
"I haven't a clue." Bunny said.
"What about Belva and Liza?"
"I wouldn't put it past them, but who could they have gotten to do it?"
"Well let's find out." Mike went to his car and returned with a small box and some wires. "If you've got a ladder, I can install these cameras no one will notice. We can watch online live to see who is coming to call."
Bunny was thrilled and quickly found a ladder. After 90 minutes the cameras were installed, the wires were hidden and everything was up and running. Bunny thanked Mike and told him she would talk to him the following morning.
About 11:30 the next day, Mike called, "Bunny, you may want to come down here."
Bunny told Della she had an errand to run but would have her phone if she needed her. When she walked into Mike's office, he motioned for her to look at his computer screen.
On the screen Bunny saw her dining room. Belva and Liza were going though the buffet pulling out the sterling flatware. They put in it a box. Then they opened another box and replaced the flatware with other flatware.
Bunny was stunned. "I knew they despised me and resented what their father did. But this surprises me." She paused. "Mike, what do I do?"
"Bunny, this is a crime. They need to be confronted. Heck, they need to be arrested. Just think of what Harrison would do. He would not only be disappointed, he would have furious."
"OK, how does that happen?"
"Well we have this on tape, so that is evidence. My suggestion is that we leave the cameras and wait until they come back. Then we will go to the house and arrest them."
"The more I think about it, the madder I get. I am assuming they have keys to the house." She shook her head. "Thanks Mike. Please let me know."
"I will."
Bunny walked out of the Sheriff's office feeling sad that this had happened. A day or two before she would have been thrilled at the idea of revenge. Now she was tired of all this.
Back at the office, Bunny saw she had a message from Pervis. She did not even care anymore. All afternoon she tried to stay busy and not think about the mess she was going to have to deal with.
Finally she saw there was a heart on her Siverspoons's icon. She logged in. The man's name was Sam. He was relatively good looking. He was a realtor from Mobile. She responded and after a series of texts, they decided to meet for drinks at Dot's that evening.
She didn't even want to go home. She felt violated. But she had to go take care of Bootsy. So Bunny made her way back to Ivy Lane. She took Bootsy out, changed clothes, and left. Given her experience with Pervis the other night, she had low expectations for that night.
However, she was surprised. Sam was a dear. He was funny, thoughtful, interesting, and nice. Life was looking up. At the end of the evening Sam walked Bunny to her car, kissed her, told her how much he enjoyed the evening, and asked if he could have her phone number. Bunny was smitten.
She went home feeling better than she had before. Sam called later to make sure she got home safely. This one was a keeper. She could not wait to tell Della.
It was around noon the following day when Mike called. "We are on our way to Ivy Lane. Do you want to come?"
"Come?" said Bunny. "I want to be the first one in the house."
She met Mike and the other deputies in front of the drive. Bunny walked quietly up the driveway. When she got to the back door, she took a breath. Then she opened the door and walked in. She found both girls in their father's office searching through the drawers of his desk.
"I don't think you'll find much in there," Bunny said.
"Well, well, well, look what the cat dragged in.", said Belva. "It will always be our house. I don't care what the court says."
Just then Mike walked in, " 'Fraid not girls. Ivy Lane belongs to Bunny. Get used to it. So does all the property you have taken. You are under arrest."
"You cannot do you that. I want my attorney."
"Yes we can do that. You can get your attorney after you are booked and in jail."
Both girls were shocked, never in their wildest imagination had they thought they would be going to jail. People of their caliber were not arrested. Jail was for low lifes like Bunny.
Bunny thanked Mike. He told her he would keep her informed about the case and get her stuff delivered back to Ivy Lane. He doubted anything was sold since they were getting what they thought was theirs.
Bunny went back to work. She still had mixed feelings about all of this. However she knew if serious action was not taken, those would never stop. How did Harrison have such vile daughters?
She told Della all about the robberies and arrests. Della was really surprised. "As haughty and ugly as both of the girls are, I did not see this one coming." Bunny agreed. Della answered the phone and Bunny went to her office to do some research on the properties Wade had talked about buying.
Her cell phone beeped with a text from Sam asking if she was free that evening. She was thrilled. He may be THE one. He suggested a place in Mobile. She agreed and they set a time. She ignored her Silverspoons account. Anyone else could wait.
She left work early to change and get to Mobile on time. She went through Mary's closet and found a nice casual pair of pants and sweater. They fit better than the blue suit did. Bunny was feeling good about herself. She had mastered Harrison's Mercedes, gotten a feel for dressing correctly, Wade had complimented her work, and now she may have found her man.
When she arrived at the restaurant Sam was waiting for her. "I thought you might stand me up?"
"Why did you think that?"
He took her hand. "Because I think I have found someone special and I do not want to miss my chance." He reached down and kissed her.
They went into the restaurant and were seated immediately. Sam was ordering champagne and Bunny said since she was driving, she would not be drinking. He immediately cancelled the order. They started talking and after coming by several times, the waitress interrupted them to take their order for dinner. Bunny told him about Harrison and Ivy Lane. Sam told her about his childhood and his business.
Their meal came and they ate. When they were finished, their conversation continued. Bunny told him about her disastrous visit to the birthday party. He laughed to the point of tears. Sam caught his breath, "You're making this up."
"I couldn't make this up," said Bunny laughing. Then she told him about the about the deposition, including what she was wearing.
"Bunny, you have to be making this up?"
"I'm not, I promise ."
At the end of the evening, Bunny was sure that Sam was it. She was in love. And, he acted as if he was also. Bunny invited him to Ivy Lane for dinner the following night. Sam seemed very excited and accepted. She drove home with a smile on her face.
On the way home Mike called to tell her he had located all the missing things from Ivy Lane and he could bring some of them out to Ivy Lane in the morning. She said she would wait to go to work until after he came. Hopefully, Bunny thought, that would be end of that mess.
Over the next week Bunny saw Sam 3 times. Each time Bunny was more entranced by this man. He was interesting, thoughtful, and romantic. In her mind she started making plans for the future - a future with Sam.
That evening Mike dropped by the house to return the additional pieces of the "stolen" items. It had taken a while to photograph and catalog all of them. Mike commented,"I haven't seen you around lately. Where have you been hiding?" Bunny laughed and told Mike all about Sam.
"If I didn't know better, I'd say you are smitten."
Bunny blushed, "I may be."
At work Bunny was busy. The company was growing and business was good. She was in love with a man who seemed to be almost perfect. She had finally moved everything from her apartment.
She took Buzz's words seriously and decided not to redecorate Ivy Lane. All of the purloined property had been returned. Mike had told her that the girls' attorney was able get them a sentence of1000 hours of community service and 2 years probation. Really this suited Bunny. As upset as she had been, while she didn't condone what they did, in a way, she understood.
She had sold her Granada. Although the dealership never told her, they immediately sold it as scrap. It was a hard thing to do for Bunny. That car had been with her through the early trials and tribulations of life.
To celebrate, she went to Dot's for a drink. Parker, Bob, and Jeb were there. They immediately motioned for her to join them at the bar. She put her purse on the stool and excused herself to visit the ladies room.
When she headed back to the bar, Jeb was turned toward her talking to Parker. He was smiling. Immediately the other 2 had turned asnd were all looking at her. Finally she thought, they realize I am the pretty woman they never paid attention to. By the time she reached the bar, they were laughing.
"What?" asked Bunny.
They replied, "Nothing." They turned back to their drinks. As Bunny climbed on the bar stool she saw, to her horror, attached to the heel of her shoe was 3 to 4 feet of toilet tissue.
Labels: Belva, Bob.Granada, Bootsy, Della, Dot's Do Drop In, Ivy Lane, Jeb, Liza, Mike, Parker, Pervis, Sam
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LAY OF THE LAND NEWSLETTER > Summer 1998
Angola Prison and Prison Museum
The Angola Prison, in Louisiana, recently visited by CLUI field researchers Igor Vamos and Melinda Stone (they did not do time there, they spent time there). CLUI photo
THE LOUISIANA STATE PENITENTIARY AT Angola is one of the largest and most notorious prisons in the country, and is perhaps the only prison with a prison museum outside its gates. It is home to around 5,000 inmates, more than 80% of whom will never be discharged, and many of whom will be buried within the confines of the prison's own graveyard.
Informally called "the farm" by wardens and inmates (and the subject of a recent documentary film by that name), the 18,000 acre penitentiary is the largest prison in the United States, by area. The vast holdings are mostly agricultural, as the inmates work the fields around the prison, the same fields that were worked by plantation slaves from Angola, Africa, in 1869 when the prison was founded as a private plantation. The Angola Prison Museum features "Old Sparky," a solid oak electric chair, last used at Angola in 1991 (when the state converted to the lethal injection death method). Arranged to appear as it did in its final electrocution, the chair exhibit includes leather straps used to restrain prisoners' feet and arms, a hood to cover the face, and sponges that, when moistened with a saline solution, help to conduct electricity. Photographs of Old Sparky's victims surround the static display.
Other exhibits include the inmate weapon cabinet, showcasing crude weapons, tattoo machines, and drug paraphernalia clandestinely fashioned by prisoners out of a wide array of unlikely, but available materials, including the carriage return of a typewriter and the metal from the bottom of a boot.
Though there are other prison museums, such as the San Quentin Prison museum, which features a gas chamber, and of course the former prison-turned-tourist attraction of Alcatraz, the Angola Prison Museum is a worthwhile visit. The museum is open Monday through Saturday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and Sunday 1:00p.m. to 5:00p.m.
Field Report by Melinda Stone
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State In Focus: Alabama
The CLUI Falls into the Deep South in 2005
The Edmund Pettus bridge in Selma, Alabama, a town that is still steeped in the Southern exotic. CLUI photoEvery year the Center takes one state to focus in on and study in depth. For 2005 it was Alabama. This time the Center’s normal staff of researchers were assisted by a group of graduate students from the Curatorial Practice Program at San Francisco’s California College of the Arts.
THERE ARE STILL COTTON FARMS in Alabama, but now the state’s largest agricultural outputs are forestry products and peanuts. Chicken is the largest farm product (only Arkansas makes more “broilers”). Despite its reputation, it is only the 7th poorest state in the USA in per capita income (it is beat out by Misssissippi, West Virginia, New Mexico, Arkansas, South Carolina, and Montana). Alabama has 4.4 million people, 71% of whom are white, 26% are black. 100 years ago it was about half black. One in six people (750,000) live in “mobile homes,” whatever that means. It is also one of most “provincial” places in the USA—people tend to live near where they were born. As a result, folkways and localized, regional culture is strong, as frequent flourishes of unique folk art and crafts attest.
Economically, Alabama is an industrialized state now. Its largest industry, in financial totals, is automobiles. The north has some large TVA power plants and dams that spurred federally supported industry in the 1930’s and 1940’s, such as fertilizers and explosives, and which laid the foundation for a high-tech industrial belt that is still strong today, centered around Huntsville. The north central part of the state has a number of major steel and pipe manufacturers, though Birmingham’s steel industry no longer dominates the regional economy (the landscape around the city has many former—and some active—steel plants). Birmingham, the largest city in the state, now has a service economy, with the headquarters of a number of national corporations, such as Healthsouth, Liberty National Insurance, and the three big southern banks: Amsouth, Regions, and Southtrust. Birmingham also has the headquarters for a few major engineering firms, such as Rust International, Herbert International, BE&K, Brasfield and Gorrie, and Blount International. These companies, like some of their out of state competitors Bechtel, KBR, and Fluor, build infrastructure and industry around the world. Supporting deal-making businesses such as these is a string of 18 golf courses, spread out from Huntsville to Mobile.
Other pockets of affluence and industry include a major munitions plant and arsenal at Anniston; a still active textile industry, which includes one of the nation’s leading sports clothing manufacturers, around Alexander City; the State Universities at Tuscaloosa and Auburn; isolated and periodic massive car plants and wood product plants; and fancy vacation communities along the shores of Alabama’s small stretch of coastline. Most of the land of the state is like the rest of the South: slightly rolling hills with fields and some forests, scattered with post-war housing, condensing on the edges of small towns, with gas stations, fast food, and shopping centers, then a few blocks of a worn, old main street at the core.
A dramatic walk-through public sculpture in Kelly Ingram Park. CLUI photoSelected Points of Interest in Alabama
Kelly Ingram Park
A cluster of notable civil rights attractions is located next to downtown Birmingham, around Kelly Ingram Park, a city block sized park that is itself the site of a major event in the nation’s civil rights struggle. Across from the park is the 16th Street Baptist Church, a center for the city’s black community, made famous in 1963 by a KKK bombing that killed four young girls. Across the street from it is the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, perhaps the national museum on the subject of civil rights. The Institute’s primary function, it seems, is to use its state of the art displays to educate legions of high school students on the history of the 1950’s and 1960’s movement, in one of the most unsubtle display environments imagineable. In the park itself are some sculptures commemorating events that occurred there in 1962, when the police were sent into the park to arrest protesters who had been gathering there in response to the imprisonment of Martin Luther King, Jr., who had been put in jail for protesting the police beatings of the bus bound Freedom Riders. At the park, the police were photographed using violent acts, with dogs, nightsticks, and fire hoses, often against children. These images and the events they depicted were ultimately to have a positive effect on civil rights policy at the national level.
Joe Minter’s Yard
Joe Minter is a visionary artist who has created a sculpture park of American history in his backyard. Using lumber, dolls, lawn ornaments, doors, and other found materials that he shapes, paints, assembles, and writes on, Minter has created a walk through “African Village in America,” as he sometimes call it, a “reclaiming of the telling of history.” The sculptures are like exhibits in a museum, each telling a different part of a historical story about civil rights, compassion, and historical and current events, nationally and locally. There is the unbuilt bridge at Gee’s Bend, and the famous built bridge at Selma; a memorial to the 2004 tsunami victims; and a commentary on the 9/11 attacks. Minter usually greets visitors if he can, and helps to make his park come alive. His place is the last house on the block, and abuts one of the main historic black graveyards in the city, where hundreds of tombs buckle with neglect.
The Edmund Pettus bridge in Selma, as recreated at Joe Minter’s yard in Birmingham. CLUI photoWade Quarry
Wade Sand & Gravel Co. operates a quarry amidst the ruins of a steel plant of the kind that once made Birmingham the industrial center of the new South. The hulking forms of the coke ovens and coal elevators, which are the only remains of a much larger complex once owned by Republic Steel, share space with the active conveyors and grey rock piles of the quarry. Amidst the mixture of industrial forms are a number of artworks, as the Wade family, who own this hyper-industrialized land, has established an informal residence program for artists to work at the site. The town of Thomasville, next to the plant site, was the company town built for the plant workers, and has identical but incongruous houses, designed originally for a plant in Pennsylvania. The homes are privately owned now.
Ruins of Republic Steel at the Wade Quarry, Birmingham. CLUI photoSloss Furnace
The Sloss Furnace is a former pig iron plant near downtown Birmingham that used to supply iron for the pipe industry of Alabama. It has been turned into a preserved landmark, open to the public. The impressive remains of two large blast furnaces, as well as the tunnels, corridors, chambers and galleries around them, are open to exploration. One of the furnace areas is still used for creative iron casting projects. Concerts and other public events are held at Sloss as well, and the annual Halloween “haunted factory” experience is superlative. Sloss is one of the few remnants America’s formidable iron and steel industries that is truly open to the public.
State Court House
The State Court House in Montgomery, Alabama’s capital, was made famous by the controversy that emerged around a two and a half ton stone monument with a tablet listing the Ten Commandments, which was placed in a prominent spot in the lobby of the building, in 2001. The separation of church and state issues it raised divided the nation, and was a national media story for a few years, as court cases battled it out. The National Guard was even called it to protect the monument at some point. The monument is currently in storage, out of public view, though its former prominent location in the lobby is an obvious vacancy.
A “temporary” display about the controversy in the lobby lists the Ten Commandments, and blocks a plaque, mounted in the wall, that depicts the U.S. Bill of Rights. CLUI photo
Hank Williams Museum
The singer Hank Williams has several attractions devoted to him in Alabama, his home state. These include his boyhood home in Georgiana; the restored Kowaliga cabin where he wrote “Your Cheatin’ Heart;” a statue of him in a park across from where his funeral was held in Montgomery; and his grave, in Oakwood Cemetery. His career in the national limelight lasted for just a few years, yet this sickly, southern white guy had nearly as much impact on American popular music as Elvis. He brought the blues to country music, and died alone, of an overdose of alcohol and pills, in the back seat of his Cadillac at the age of 29. The Hank Williams Museum in Montgomery displays that Cadillac, along with the contents of the suitcase he had with him, and the light blue suit he was wearing at the time of his death.
Hank Williams Museum, Montgomery. CLUI photoGee’s Bend
One celebrated remote place in Alabama is Gee’s Bend (famous at least in the arts and crafts worlds). It was here that, due to the isolation and creativity of its denizens, a unique form of quilt patterning emerged, based on African traditions, yet cut, literally, from American cloth. Composed of about fifty of the women of the community, the quilters collective at Gee’s Bend has had their work shown in museums around the country. Most of the quilters are direct descendents of slaves who were brought to work on what started out as Mr. Gee’s plantation, on a bend on the Alabama River. Though today Gee’s Bend is officially called Boykin, it is still remote, located at the end of what remains one of the longest dead-end roads in the state.
Bryant-Denny Stadium
Arguably, college football may be more avidly followed in Alabama than any other state. The temple of the sport is the state university stadium in Tuscaloosa. The Bryant-Denny Stadium is home of the University of Alabama football team, ominously named The Crimson Tide. Built in 1929, the colossal stadium holds 83,818 people. It was originally named after a university president (George Hutchenson Denny), but in 1975 the Alabama state legislature renamed the stadium “Bryant-Denny Stadium” to commemorate the accomplishments of the team’s coach Paul W. “Bear” Bryant. Bryant achieved legendary status in football by leading Alabama to the national championship six times, and setting the record as the (up to that time) most successful coach in college football history with a record of 323 wins out of 424 games. Bryant, who coached at Alabama for 25 years, is no doubt the primary reason for Alabaman college football zeal. A museum dedicated to Bear Bryant is located a few blocks from the stadium.
A treatment site at the “largest chemical waste dump in America.” CLUI photoEmelle Hazardous Waste Mound
Waste Management Incorporated’s Emelle Treatment Facility, located in the remote Sumter County, in western Alabama, is one of the largest toxic waste dumps in the United States. At its peak, the facility received almost 800,000 tons of waste per year, coming mostly from US states outside of Alabama, and military bases overseas. Though the landfill is lined, and a leachate filtration system helps to keep toxic materials on site, some tests have reported traces of water contamination in nearby towns. Protestors argue that the location of the facility is a product of “environmental racism.” Sumter County is one of the country’s most impoverished regions with one-third of the residents living below the poverty level and over 90 percent of the residents in the area are black. In the 1990s, a state tax on waste deposits and a series of federal regulations resulted in a 85 percent decline in the amount of waste buried at the landfill each year. The site is still accepting wastes, and will have to maintain the collection on site for decades, if not centuries, to come.
Old Cahawba
Old Cahawba is a complex and mysteriously evocative place, an encapsulation of much of the state’s history, and a place that is, apparently, a place to leave. It began as a major Native American village, with a palisade wall and a large mound inside. Briefly, it was Alabama’s state capital (1820-1826). Before the Civil War, it was a thriving river town, a major distribution point for cotton shipped down the Alabama River from the fertile “black belt” to the port of Mobile. Some thought that it would become a port town as popular as New York City, but with its constant flooding and lack of connecting railroads the city could not survive. It became a ghost town shortly after the Civil War. Today all that remains in Cahawba are several old street signs, an abandoned plantation home, a few slave quarters, and bits of rubble outlining where homes and businesses once stood, marked by interpretive plaques. Abandoned trailer-homes indicate the last attempt by individuals to inhabit Old Cahawba, fishermen and hunters from the late 1980s, who have, like the other former denizens, mysteriously departed.
Static display at U.S. Space and Rocket Center. CLUI photoU.S. Space and Rocket Center
Soon after World War II, rocket research at the Redstone Arsenal, near Huntsville, transformed the landscape and economy of northern Alabama, making the region one of the world’s most important centers for space technology. Today, the results of these federally supported activities has created a belt of affluence, based on high tech industries. The center of the space programs in the region is NASA’s George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, established by the federal government in 1958 to develop rockets for space travel, and to continue the research of rocket pioneer Werner von Braun, who directed the Center for many years, and who first moved his lab to the arsenal grounds from Texas in the 1940s. It is still one of NASA’s primary laboratory complexes, and houses activities related to propulsion technology, space travel, and space station habitation. Extensive displays at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center, the large visitors center created by NASA, with local foundations and business interests, include over 1,500 pieces of rocket and space hardware, models, dioramas, interactive kiosks, and films that depict and describe the official story of the American conquest of space, and the role that the Marshall Space Flight Center and Werner von Braun had in making this possible.
Rural Studio’s Community Center in Mason’s Bend. CLUI photo
Rural Studio at Mason’s Bend
Mason’s Bend is a small community surrounded by the vast fields of Hale County, one of the poorest counties in the United States. This is where the late Samuel Mockbee started Rural Studio, a hands-on architecture workshop for graduate students at Auburn University. Since 1993, Rural Studio students have designed and built houses and other structures with the families of Mason’s Bend. The buildings are imaginatively designed, and are built with unconventional, inexpensive, and recycled materials (the church in Mason’s Bend is made out of rammed earth, with a shimmering wall of car windshields that cascade from the roof to the ground). Though the idea of bringing innovative, contemporary architecture to areas like Mason’s Bend is an important aspect of Rural Studio, the success of their projects are ultimately measured by how much they honor, involve, and benefit the people they are created for. Mockbee’s dream of this “architecture of decency” lives on through the continued expansion of Rural Studio, which has completed internationally acclaimed projects with several other communities in Hale County and beyond. Though based at Auburn University, on the other side of the state, the “campus” for Rural Studio is a few miles down the road from Mason’s Bend, along the main street through Newbern.
Rural Studio students at work in the rural studio in Newbern. CLUI photoThanks to the members of the Curatorial Practice Program class at CCA, Kathleen Brennan, Kalia Brook, Alex Burke, Joyce Grimm, Audrey Marrs, Jessica Martin, Nancy Meyer, Dina Pugh, Aislinn Race, and Roopesh Sitharan for assisting with the Center’s Focus on Alabama, and for helping to enrich the Center’s Land Use Database, one state at a time!
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Why Become an APPAM Member?
I am an APPAM member because the organization truly fosters great policy research and education by investing in the professional development of its membership. ~Thalya Reyes, APPAM Student Member
Home/Careers & Education/Education for Public Service Careers
Public service careers span a wide range of organizations and jobs in the new public sector, including frontline positions in government, senior positions in nonprofit management, and faculty positions in universities. Schools of public administration and public policy, such as the APPAM Institutional Members listed below, offer a range of degree programs to prepare you for launching and sustaining a desirable career in the field. The schools also offer mid-career and executive education programs designed specifically for the ongoing education needs of the working professional.
Making the decision to earn a graduate degree (via PublicServiceCareers.org)
The Bachelor's Degree
The number of stand-alone Bachelor’s degrees in public administration/public policy has been increasing over the past two decades, as has the number of minors in the field available to undergraduates.
One of the major advantages in an undergraduate program is the opportunity to take a sequence of courses related to a specific issue such as health care or the environment. Master’s degrees (MPA/MPP) inevitably focus much more on developing crucial analytical and managerial skills, and Ph.D. programs must place an emphasis on research methods and theory.
Graduates of Bachelor’s programs may find employment in all sectors at the entry level, and can gain vital experience that will serve them well when and if they decide to apply for additional education.
For information on continuing education in public service beyond the Bachelor's degree, please visit the dedicated webpages for the Master's Degree and the PhD Degree.
APPAM Institutional Members
Many of APPAM's Instituional Members are organizations that offer Masters and Doctoral programs in the public administration/public policy fields. Below is a list of our Institutional Members that offer such programs.
Organization Degree Program
American University Both Masters and PhD Programs
Arizona State University Both Masters and PhD Programs
Austin W. Marxe School of Public and International Affairs Masters Program
Brandeis University Both Masters and PhD Programs
Brown University Both Masters and PhD Programs
Claremont Graduate University Both Masters and PhD Programs
Cleveland State University Both Masters and PhD Programs
College of William and Mary Masters Program
Cornell University- CIPA Masters Program
Cornell University-PAM Both Masters and PhD Programs
Duke University, Sanford School of Public Policy Both Masters and PhD Programs
George Mason University Both Masters and PhD Programs
George Washington University Both Masters and PhD Programs
Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy Masters Program
Georgia Institute of Technology Both Masters and PhD Programs
Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis Both Masters and PhD Programs
Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs Both Masters and PhD Programs
Johns Hopkins University Both Masters and PhD Programs
La Follette School Public Affairs - University of Wisconsin - Madison Masters Program
Maastricht University Both Masters and PhD Programs
National University of Singapore - Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy Both Masters and PhD Programs
New York University Both Masters and PhD Programs
Northeastern University Both Masters and PhD Programs
Northwestern University SESP Both Masters and PhD Programs
Pardee RAND Graduate School PhD Program
Pepperdine University Masters Program
Princeton University Both Masters and PhD Programs
Rutgers University - Camden Both Masters and PhD Programs
Rutgers University - New Brunswick Both Masters and PhD Programs
Rutgers University - Newark Both Masters and PhD Programs
Texas A&M University Masters Program
The Daniel J. Evans School of Public Policy and Governance, University of Washington Both Masters and PhD Programs
The Maxwell School at Syracuse University Both Masters and PhD Programs
The Ohio State University Both Masters and PhD Programs
The University of Georgia Both Masters and PhD Programs
University at Albany, Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy Both Masters and PhD Programs
University of Arizona Both Masters and PhD Programs
University of California - Los Angeles Both Masters and PhD Programs
University of California San Diego Masters Program
University of California, Berkeley Both Masters and PhD Programs
University of California, Riverside Masters Program
University of Central Florida Both Masters and PhD Programs
University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy Both Masters and PhD Programs
University of Colorado Denver Both Masters and PhD Programs
University of Denver Both Masters and PhD Programs
University of Houston Masters Program
University of Illinois Both Masters and PhD Programs
University of Kentucky Both Masters and PhD Programs
University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) Both Masters and PhD Programs
University of Maryland, College Park Both Masters and PhD Programs
University of Massachusetts at Amherst Masters Program
University of Massachusetts at Boston Both Masters and PhD Programs
University of Michigan Both Masters and PhD Programs
University of Minnesota, The Humphrey School Both Masters and PhD Programs
University of Missouri-Columbia Both Masters and PhD Programs
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Both Masters and PhD Programs
University of North Carolina, Charlotte Both Masters and PhD Programs
University of Oklahoma Masters Program
University of Oregon Both Masters and PhD Programs
University of Pennsylvania, School of Social Policy & Practice Both Masters and PhD Programs
University of Pennsylvania-Fels Institute of Government Masters Program
University of Pennsylvania-Graduate School of Education Both Masters and PhD Programs
University of Pittsburgh Both Masters and PhD Programs
University of Southern California, Sol Price School of Public Policy Both Masters and PhD Programs
University of Texas at Austin Both Masters and PhD Programs
University of Texas at Dallas Both Masters and PhD Programs
University of the Pacific Masters Program
University of Virginia, Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy Both Masters and PhD Programs
Vanderbilt University's Peabody College Masters Program
Victoria University of Wellington Both Masters and PhD Programs
Virginia Commonwealth University Both Masters and PhD Programs
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University Both Masters and PhD Programs
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Middle School Students Challenge Maine Youth To Create Community Change On Global Youth Service Day
AUGUSTA - Lincoln Middle School students, supported by the Maine Commission for Community Service and Youth Service America, are challenging youth across Maine to volunteer on Global Youth Service Day 2012. These students will join millions of other young people around the world who are creating community change as part of the world's largest and longest-running service event.
LMS students want at least 600 Maine youth to engage in service projects that benefit their community on Global Youth Service Day weekend. Young volunteers may plan their service projects around any local issue, or choose to address hunger, the environment, health and safety, education, disaster in their communities, or even global service and human rights.
In addition to this challenge, LMS students are already planning to host this year's Student Summit on Service-Learning to highlight student-led environmental projects. The summit is an annual event hosted in collaboration with KIDS Consortium, which will take place May 24 at the USM-Gorham campus.
For volunteer activity and service projects to be counted, students and classrooms must register their service project at the VolunteerMaine website http://volunteermaine.org/service-learning/gysd-event-page/. Additional information can be found there as well.
"I love being able to see other student service projects and learning that other students are involved and concerned about issues in their communities," said one LMS student. "I feel like we made a difference and I learned to never give up on what you believe in."
Now in its 24th year, Global Youth Service Day is celebrated in more than 100 countries, and recognizes the positive impact that young people have on their communities 365 days a year. Organized by Youth Service America, a leader in the international youth service movement, Global Youth Service Day offers youth, ages 5 to 25, the resources and support to plan meaningful projects that improve their communities.
"Congratulations and thanks to the young people of Lincoln Middle School in Portland for their work to improve their community," said Steven A. Culbertson, YSA president and CEO. "On Global Youth Service Day, the world stands in awe as we see what's possible when kids take the lead as problem-solvers."
YSA (Youth Service America) improves communities by increasing the number and diversity of young people, ages 5 to 25, serving in substantive roles. Through grants, service-learning programs, mobilization campaigns and resources, YSA supports a global culture of engaged youth committed to a lifetime of service, learning, leadership and achievement. YSA's signature campaign, Global Youth Service Day, is the largest and longest-running service event in the world, and takes place in more than 100 countries on six continents April 20 to 22, 2012. Learn more at www.gysd.org.
Richard Higgins
Maine Commission for Community Service
19 Union Street, 38 State House Station
Augusta, ME 04333-0038
Email richard.higgins@maine.gov
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Millions of people were imprisoned in Auschwitz during World War II and very few people survived the atrocities of the Nazis. Built in 1940, this hell on earth saw the murders of over 1.3 million Jews, Gypsies, prisoners of war, and others. Ever since Auschwitz was established as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1979, people from around the world have traveled to there to pay their respects to the victims of the Holocaust.
How To Get to Auschwitz
Auschwitz is located roughly 50 kilometers outside of Krakow in southwest Poland. The closest city is Oswiecim, which is where few visitors choose to stay. Others arrive in Oswiecim via train or choose to drive. The majority stay in Krakow and either take day trips or use tour companies to avoid navigating the roads. There are a variety of tours to choose from on sites such as Viator.com and tripadvisor.com.
The front of the station that is closest to Auschwitz – Oswiecim, Poland
The inside of Oswiecim train station – Oswiecim, Poland
If you do choose to go through a tour company, research how much time you will have at each of the camps. There is a lot of ground to cover and some tours may not provide as much time as you would like or need.
Busses run from Krakow fairly regularly and take around 1.5 hours. For those who don’t want to wait as long for the busses, taking the train is also an option. However, the busses will stop closer to the Auschwitz museum, whereas the train station is around two kilometers away.
Inside a typical train – Oswiecim, Poland
Polish trains – Oswiecim, Poland
Zebradowice, the small train station you’ll likely have to get off at to take the train to Auschwitz – Poland
When I visited Auschwitz, I arrived after taking an overnight train from Vienna. The trip was long, exhausting, and involves getting off the train at three in the morning at a tiny station to transfer. If you choose to arrive at Oswiecim by train, you can either walk the distance to the camp or take a taxi if you already have Polish Zlotys. When I first visited Auschwitz, I had arrived from a night train that I took from Vienna, Austria. I had no zlotys and there was only one shady-looking ATM that I didn’t want to risk my debit card with. I bit the bullet and withdrew enough to get me a taxi to the camp, and never had any problems with my card. Glad I took that risk!
For further information on traveling from a distance by train, visit the Eurail website for the most up-to-date schedules and routes.
Lots of airlines fly into Krakow from all over Europe because it is one of the largest cities in Poland. Flights can be found on many sites, and I find that Skyscanner is one of the best search engine sites to discover the cheapest flights.
Before visiting Auschwitz, there are a few important things to know. Everything will be explained in detail once you arrive but knowing a little bit beforehand can save you lots of confusion.
There are two Auschwitz camps. Auschwitz I was the original camp. Auschwitz II, which is also known as Auschwitz-Birkenau, was built later and is the death camp that is the most well known. The two camps are not far apart and a free shuttle runs between them. I did not fully understand this until I visited, which helped clarify things that I learned there and before my visit.
Auschwitz I
Visiting without a tour is not only wise, but also can be done for free if you plan accordingly. The museum has a rule that if you are there during peak season (April 1 – October 31) you must enter before 10 am or after 3 pm. This allows you to walk through the camps uninhibited. You have the option to sign up for a guided tour but the museum is structured so well that there is no need for a guide. However, the guides that work there are extraordinary and provide powerful tours. With or without a guided tour, there isn’t a wrong way to experience the camp.
Some ways to see the camp are better than others though. Most people arrive at Auschwitz in the early morning and tour Auschwitz I, then eat lunch and visit Auschwitz-Birkenau in the afternoon. In order to beat the crowds, I went the reverse direction and visited Auschwitz-Birkenau first. There were maybe only five other people in the whole Birkenau compound, which allowed me to really experience the camp for what it was. Consequently, when I visited Auschwitz I in the afternoon, there were drastically fewer people because they had all gone to see Auschwitz-Birkenau. Arriving early and staying late provides a very unique experience when you have the camp all to yourself.
This cattle car is the kind that transported Jews across Europe – Auschwitz, Poland
All in all, plan to devote an entire day to visiting Auschwitz. It is an experience that shouldn’t be rushed and if you plan other things the same day it will be difficult to appreciate the site.
The infamous sign “Arbeit Macht Frei” hauntingly welcomes every visitor to Auschwitz. It has become a symbol around the world for the oppression that the prisoners faced. Translated from German, it reads, “Work makes you free.” A twisted irony for the prisoners because no amount of work would ever make them free from the horrors of the Nazis.
Auschwitz I still houses the original brick barracks and they are standing. The barracks are open to walk through and many of them are museums that display artifacts from the camp. Some of the buildings are memorials. When the site was converted into a museum, buildings were allocated to the countries of the victims. For example, Poland has an entire building that they have designed a memorial for, the Netherlands has an entire building that they customized to honor their victims, France has one, etc. This provides a very unique way to see how each country chose to remember its victims.
This book has the names of all the Jews who died in concentration camps during WWII – Auschwitz, Poland
My thumb is to reference how small the print is of the names – Auschwitz, Poland
The gas chambers of Auschwitz I are still intact and visitors are able to see firsthand the place where thousands of innocent people were mercilessly murdered. On the walls, fingernail marks from the victims clawing to the top of the chamber can still be distinctly seen. The air in the gas chambers is so heavy with emotion and suffering that happened in that small room.
Block 10 was home to Dr. Josef Mengele’s horrific crimes in the name of science. His favorite victims were twins and he carried out all sorts of experiments. The atrocities didn’t stop at twins, however. Mengele attempted all sorts of sterilization techniques, tried to change eye color with injections into the eye, and tormented pregnant women to name a few. To top it all off, Mengele was able to escape and did not die until the year 1979.
In between blocks 10 and 11 lays the Black Wall. The windows surrounding the wall have been boarded up so that nobody from the outside could see what was happening. The Black Wall was the site of many executions by the firing squad and today is one of the deadliest places in the camp.
This is where a majority of the executions by firing squad occurred – Auschwitz, Poland
Block 11 was the “prison within a prison” and saw many intense interrogations as well as cells for solitary confinement. Very few people who entered Block 11 emerged alive. It is very moving and emotional to walk through and envision the tragedies that occurred there decades ago.
Contrastingly, Auschwitz-Birkenau resembles a ghost town. The rows of barracks have been destroyed and all that remains are the skeletons of chimneys stretching literally as far as the eye can see. Auschwitz-Birkenau was built in 1942 after Auschwitz I ran out of room for the prisoners. From that point on, it changed from a concentration camp for prisoners into an extermination camp for murders. As the Allied forces drew closer to the camp, the SS guards blew up the gas chambers and many buildings in a feeble attempt to destroy the evidence of their crimes. You cannot walk into the gas chambers and some buildings are in ruins but that doesn’t detract from the overall experience.
Hundreds and hundreds of chimneys still stand as a solemn reminder of the horrors of Auschwitz
Bunk beds in the barracks were stacked three high and many prisoners were crammed onto each bed – Auschwitz, Poland
Bathrooms were not private and prisoners were expected to go in front of others – Auschwitz, Poland
The collapsed ruins of the gas chambers from Auschwitz-Birkenau
The sorting platform lays dead center in the camp. It is where families were torn apart forever under the merciless hands of the Nazis. Being sent left meant immediate death in the gas chambers. Going right meant you were forced into slave labor with little chance for survival. Today, nothing is left but the dirt and railroad tracks that saw so much pain and suffering.
This is the infamous sorting platform where families were torn apart forever – Auschwitz, Poland
Towards the back of the camp, near the forest, lies an inconspicuous grassy field. It looks peaceful today but it once saw the murders of thousands of people who were burned alive. Few people knew what occurred within the camps. Until this picture was released to the public, much of the world had turned a blind eye. This photograph is one of the few taken inside the camp and shows a field as a horrific murder scene. Officials at the camp had ordered certain prisoners, known as Sonderkommandos, to burn the bodies and dispose of them. Alberto Errera, one such Sonderkommandos, took these pictures that shocked the world.
This picture was taken by one of the Sonderkommandos illegally in Auschwitz-Birkenau. It shows the bodies of the victims being burned in mass graves at the demands of the Nazis
This field is the same field where the bodies were burned in the picture above – Auschwitz, Poland
Some visitors to the Krakow area choose to not visit Auschwitz because they are afraid of the high emotions. Although their reasoning is logical, I firmly believe that everybody needs to visit a concentration camp in their travels. It will be emotionally exhausting but it is something that needs to be seen. Concentration camps are a solemn reminder of the atrocities committed. As human beings, we can’t let the stories of the victims go unheard. So go, visit a concentration camp and learn as much as you can from it. After all,
“Those who refuse to learn from history are condemned to repeat it.”
Remembering the Victims of Auschwitz Concentration Camp – The Traveling Storygirl
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Helen Walker becomes Chief Executive of Carers UK
After more than 10 years with TimeBank, Helen Walker has accepted a position as Chief Executive of Carers UK and will be leaving TimeBank in November.
TimeBank chair Peter Beeby said: “The TimeBank Board of Trustees has already begun the search for a replacement and will make an announcement in due course. In the meantime, we’d like to thank Helen for her fantastic work over the years, and her commitment to making a positive impact through high-quality volunteering and mentoring. She leaves TimeBank in great shape with an exciting future ahead.”
Helen Walker said: “It has been a tremendous privilege to lead this passionate and innovative charity for the last 10 years and see it evolve as an authority on volunteer-led social impact projects that support disadvantaged and socially excluded groups across the UK. I am sad to be leaving, but I know TimeBank will go from strength to strength, with volunteering at its core.”
For more information, contact: Julia Shipston, Communications Manager at TimeBank: julias@timebank.org.uk; tel: 07713163003.
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NATO Military structure,Finland & Sweden
NATO wants to integrate Sweden & Finland into their Military Structures
The Baltic Sea in Transition. Among the topics: US military presence in the region, NATOs decision to place multinational battle groups in the Baltic States and Poland, EU defence policy, Finland & Sweden and NATO’s new force structure.
Russia is concerned about recent NATO moves aimed at involving Finland and Sweden in the alliance’s activities and structures, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said Tuesday. A treaty was signed in May that provides for the two states’ full participation in the exercises of the alliance and the possibility of using its command-and-control systems for troops and weapons, he said at a meeting of the Defense Ministry’s board.“In exchange, NATO received unrestricted access to the airspace and territorial waters of these countries,” he added. According to the minister, “such steps by Western colleagues lead to the destruction of the existing system of global security and generate even greater mistrust, forcing us to take response measures.”
“Cheat India” shoots today in Lucknow
The shoot of the keenly awaited Emraan Hashmi-starrer “Cheat India” commences today in Lucknow
The makers of “Hindi Medium”, “Neerja” and “Tumhari Sulu”, have collaborated again, this time to produce “Cheat India”, a never-seen-before peek into the vagaries of the Indian education system
Clearly aimed at Indian students, this edge-of-the-seat Emraan Hashmi-starrer rolls in Lucknow today.
More than 75 actors from UP, including real students from various colleges and universities, have been cast.
The makers released a teaser video of Emraan playing with the alphabets of ‘Teach’, which incidentally, are the same as those of ‘Cheat’. Hashmi’s naughty wink at the end leaves you wondering whether he’s the hunter or the villain!
BHUSHAN KUMAR, TANUJ GARG, ATUL KASBEKAR AND EMRAAN HASHMI ARE PRODUCING THE FILM, SET FOR A JANUARY 25, 2019 RELEASE.
Pak NA 272 votes for a new PM
Polling stations are open in Pakistan for a general election, which promises to be a close-run affair, between cricket player turned anti-corruption crusader Imran Khan and the party of jailed former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. The vote was marred by allegations of army meddling in the campaign to boost Khan’s chances.
Women cast their votes for the first time in the history of Upper Dir as polls opened across the country Wednesday. Queues of women could be seen outside the polling stations in constituencies NA-5 and PK-12. The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) had earlier said that any area where women are stopped from or face hindrances in voting could face the election in its constituency becoming invalid.
They ECP said the results of any constituency would be declared invalid should the female turnout be lower than 10 per cent. Any person found involved in or facilitating such a deal may face up to three years in prison.
A PTI worker is shot dead after ANP and PTI workers clash in Swabi’s PK-47 constituency. At least two persons — wounded in the incident — were shifted to the hospital, District Police Officer Syed Khalid Hamdani said.
PTI leader Shah Mehmood Qureshi spoke to the media after casting his vote in Multan. The politician said that the political climate that developed by last night suggests that PTI will clean sweep all six seats from Multan. “The pattern I have seen so far, the camps, the deployed army, and the discipline, it all looks on point,” he observed, adding that the Election Commission ‘has acted responsibly.’
Pakistan’s nearly 106 million registered voters have a chance to choose their representatives in the national and provincial assemblies — as well as their next prime minister — as the country goes for its 11th General Election on July 25.
Polling began at 8AM and will conclude, without any break, at 6PM across the country’s 85,307 polling stations, of which 17,007 have been declared “highly sensitive”, results will be announced within 24 hours.
As many as 12,570 candidates are contesting for a total of 849 seats of national and provincial assemblies in the general election.According to the Election Commission of Pakistan, 3,459 candidates are contesting for 272 general seats of the National Assembly, while 8,396 candidates are running for 577 general seats of the four provincial assemblies – Punjab, Sindh, Balochistan and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.
More than 30 political parties have fielded their candidates for the elections. The opposition Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, led by cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan, is looking to unseat the incumbent Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), which was formally led by the now jailed ex-prime minister Nawaz Sharif.
The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), led by Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, is also in the race. Shahbaz Sharif, the president of the PML-N who is hoping to become the next prime minister of Pakistan, was among the first people to cast his vote in Lahore.
“Just cast my vote. High time that all of you came out to vote for Pakistan’s progress and prosperity. May this election be a source of peace and stability for the nation!,” he tweeted after casting his vote.
For a smooth polling process, the ECP has deployed around 1.6 million staff at polling stations across the country. About 449,465 policemen and over 370,000 military personnel have been deployed for security. In a special message yesterday, Chief Election Commissioner Justice (retd) Sardar Raza Khan urged voters to fulfil their national duty of casting the ballot.
A public holiday has been declared across the country on Wednesday in order to facilitate the voting process. Pakistan’s National Assembly comprises a total of 342 members, of which 272 will be directly elected today whereas the rest — 60 seats reserved for women and 10 for religious minorities — are selected later through proportional representation among parties with more than five per cent of the vote.
A party can only form the government if it manages to clinch 172 seats in total. The run up to the elections have seen a massive crackdown on the media and allegations that the military has secretly backed the campaign of Khan while targeting his political opponents.
‘SAHEB, BIWI AUR GANGSTER 3’
You are cordially invited to attend the Press Conference of an upcoming Indian action thriller film.l
(The master, the wife and the gangster 3. An upcoming film directed by Tigmanshu Dhulia. It is the third instalment in Tigmanshu Dhulia’s series of films started by Rahul Mittra Saheb, Biwi Aur Gangster. The scheduled release date of the movie is 27th July 2018. Sanjay Dutt, Jimmy Shergill, Mahi Gill, Chitrangada & Soha Ali Khan will play the lead roles in the film..)
To be addressed by:
Jimmy Shergill
Chitrangda (Desi Boyz & Yeh Saali Zindagi fame)
Mahie Gill (Dev D fame)
Rahul Mittra (Producer)
Tigmanshu Dhulia (Director)
Date: 25th July 2018 (Wednesday)
Venue: PVR, Audi 5, Mall of India, Noida
You are requested to send correspondents/ photographers/ camera crew for the Press Conference.
CAIT :No WALMART FLIPKART DEAL
CAIT CONCLAVE DEMANDED THE GOVT TO STOP WALMART FLIPKART DEAL
Pls See: http://dipp.nic.in/sites/default/files/pn3_2016_0.pdf … 1. no FDI is allowed in eCommerce 2. Amazon & Flipkart are flaunting rules 3. Deal exposes India to Walmart, –the company admitted bribery charges in US for Indian subsidiary’s works. 4. 8% of Flpkart is marketplace 5. it kills 45% job roles
At second day of three days National Trade Conclave being held at New Delhi under the umbrella of the Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT), the trade leaders of the Country in a one voice today strongly demanded the Union Government to stop the Walmart-Flipkart Deal as it will greatly hamper the domestic trade. The trade leaders also resolved that come what may, the trading community of the Country will stoutly oppose the deal and if need arises, the CAIT will not mind in seeking legal recourse The Conclave also decided to launch a nationwide movement against the deal and to sensitise e commerce business of India. About 1500 trade leaders from all over the Country are attending the Conclave,
The trade leaders at the Conclave said that it is certain that the Walmart-Flipkart deal is nothing but in long run a clear attempt to control & dominate the much potential retail trade of India by Walmart through e commerce which is only a bridge to reach out to offline retail market of India. The key issues of the matter is whoever controls the platform control data and digital intelligence. Owner can squeeze and dictate anything. It is much more difficult for the Govt to control & regulate foreign owned platforms and all indigenous players will have no value if a foreign company runs the platform.
CAIT National President Mr. B.C.Bhartia & Secretary General Mr. Praveen Khandelwal said that in absence of any e commerce policy and any Regulatory mechanism, the continuing predatory pricing & deep discounts practices in e commerce will be encouraged more. Digitally powered e-Walmart will certainly vitiate the e commerce and retail market.There will be an uneven level playing field to the disadvantage of retail traders. Only the venture capitalist, investors & promotors will be benefitted and not the Country.
The CAIT also raise a demand that Government should immediately frame a national policy for e commerce and constitute a Regulatory Authority to regulate and e commerce business in India and till such time, the deal should be put in abeyance by the Government and a close scrutiny should be held in the entire deal. The Conclave will continue till tomorrow. Union HRD Minister Shri Prakash Javedkar, Commerce Minister Shri Suresh Prabhu & Urban Development Minister Shri Hardeep Puri will attend the Conclave tomorrow.
‘Madrasas and the Making of Islamic Womanhood’
Invitation to the book launch of ‘Madrasas and the Making of Islamic Womanhood’
when: Saturday : 28 July 2018: 7 PM
where : India International centre, Kamladevi,
This in-depth ethnography looks at the everyday lives of Muslim students in a girls’ madrasa in India. Highlighting the ambiguities between the students’ espousal of madrasa norms and everyday practice, Borker illustrates how young Muslim girls tactically invoke the virtues of safety, modesty, and piety learnt in the madrasa to reconfigure normative social expectations around marriage, education, and employment.
Amongst the few ethnographies on girls’ madrasas in India, this volume focuses on unfolding of young women’s lives as they journey from their home to madrasa and beyond, and thereby problematizes the idealized and coherent notions of piety presented by anthropological literature on female participation in Islamic piety projects. The author uses ethnographic portraits to introduce us to an array of students, many of whom find their aspirational horizon expanded as a result of the madrasa experience. Such stories challenge the dominant media’s representations of madrasas as outmoded religious institutions. Further, the author illustrates how the processes of learning–unlearning and alternate visions of the future emerge as an unanticipated consequence of young women’s engagement with madrasa education.
Hem Borker is assistant professor at the Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India.
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A Trip Around the World
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Master English And Improve Your Travel Experience
/ By Gilbert Baltic
Travel broadens the mind, to paraphrase Mark Twain, which is one reason why more people than ever before are vacationing away from their home country, exploring new lands and new cultures. As anyone who has travelled extensively knows, the world really is an incredible place, and whether you’re a new or veteran traveller, there’s always something new and breath taking to discover. Prior planning leads to a perfect travel experience, but whilst it’s important to have packed all you need for your journey, there’s one other thing that can boost your enjoyment levels: improving your English.
The Universal Language
Mandarin Chinese is the most widely spoken native language in the world, with nearly 850 million people using it as their first language, compared to around 400 million native Spanish speakers and approximately 335 million English speakers. This doesn’t tell the whole story when it comes to travel, however, as a significant number of people across the globe speak English as their second language. Many people today travel to several countries at a time, and a grand tour across Europe, for example, could bring you into contact with German, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish speakers, and more. Learning all those languages can be a difficult and time consuming process for a relatively short time spent in their countries, but you’ll find that English is widely spoken in all of them – especially in areas that are connected to the custom trade. Across South American, Asia and Africa as well, you’ll find someone who understands you if you speak in English.
Enhancing the Joy of Traveling
Travelling abroad can bring delights to all our senses, and it’s perfectly possible to enjoy the sights and landscape of a country without speaking a single word. To get an in depth appreciation of a country, however, it helps to be able to communicate with the people who live there. One of the great things about a foreign vacation is the opportunity to learn about the country’s culture and history, which is why museums are always a popular destination. The renowned Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg is one example; home to art treasures of Russia and the world, it attracts four million visitors every year. The Cyrillic alphabet can be difficult for non-Russians to master, but English information is also available for all their exhibits, greatly enhancing the experience for speakers of the language.
An Easy Way to Improve Your English
There are many ways to improve your ability in the English language, but the most effective way is often to get expert help and guidance from specialists in English language teaching such as the Communicate School. This English school in Manchester, a city famed worldwide for both its cultural and sporting heritage, helps people across the world improve and master their English. Courses are available for all abilities, and residential programs are also available allowing students to explore this beautiful and fascinating part of Britain at the same time as improving their English language skills.
Whether you study English online, through books, or at an English language school, you’ll find that being able to speak the language makes worldwide holidays even more enjoyable. From visiting museums to buying gifts and ordering food, you’ll always find the right words to say, wherever your travels take you.
About the Author Gilbert Baltic
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International community eyes election
By Ana Campoy Special to the Daily Planet
When elections take place in other countries, the U.S. government seems quick to pass judgment, lauding efficient elections as a measure of democracy. But now the champion of democracy is in the midst of electing its next president in a manner befitting a tale more surreal than orderly. It includes missing ballot boxes, a faulty ballot and an outcome dependent on returns from a state controlled by the brother of one of the candidates.
No one is enjoying the circus more than international students and faculty members from UC Berkeley.
“The vision that the United States always tries to sell, that they are the perfect democracy, has changed for me,” said Julio García, a doctorate environmental engineering student from Colombia. “Maybe their democracy is not so perfect.”
This notion doesn't come as a surprise to Mina Rajagopalan, an architecture graduate student. “The U.S. claims a lot of things it is not,” said the student from India, where she says corruption and vote rigging are more socially accepted. “They are no different than any third world country, they just have a better way of covering it up.”
She said this election has exposed the deceptive way in which the U.S. democracy operates. Hong Yung Lee, a Korean political science professor, disagrees. He thinks that although the democratic system was not prepared for the current situation, it has pulled through.
“It shows the strength of the American democracy,” he said, “It's trying to follow procedural laws and the rule of the people. It's really remarkable.”
As for the uncounted ballots discovered in the trunk of a car in New Mexico, Lee sees them as an unintentional mistake.
Martin Yong, a 21 year-old from London, has a different explanation. “I reckon it's the FBI or the CIA,” he said jokingly.
To him, the whole electoral process has been “kind of funny and ridiculous”.
“Both parties are the same and the system is undemocratic,” he said referring to the electoral college. He thinks each state should have one vote, like in the British parliament system, whose members elect the prime minister.
The political system and the nationality of the people do not play a role in such a close race where confusion is expected, said Matina Marneri, an environmental engineering student from Greece. She thinks public reactions would not be different if the same situation arose in her country, where the head of government is elected by a parliament. “People are the same here or there,” she said.
Maybe not. In the Philippines voters and election officials are more likely to be corrupted than in the United States, said Irma Gofalvez, a professor from the department of South and South East Asian studies.
“The reason goes back to the economy: people who are very poor are attracted to bribery,” she said, “It's not justifying (the problem), but that's the way it is.”
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Judge halts oil, natural gas exploration off coast
SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge halted oil and natural gas exploration off central California’s coast Friday, saying the area can’t be drilled or explored until the federal government studies the environmental impacts and the California Coastal Commission approves of the plan.
The decision by U.S. District Court Judge Claudia Wilken is a major blow to petroleum companies that have left their leases dormant while natural gas and oil prices have neared all-time highs. It comes as California struggles through an energy crisis.
Environmentalists hailed the decision, which affects the proposed developments off San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara and Ventura counties.
“We think it’s a bad idea to have additional oil and gas drilling off the coast,” said Drew Caputo, an attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council.
For now, the decision blocks any attempt to build the first new oil platforms off California’s coast since 1994. No drilling to explore for oil deposits has been conducted since 1989.
At issue is an amount of oil that could be large enough to run California’s refineries for two years and fuel five months worth of the state’s natural gas demands.
Those estimates are about one-fifth the amount of energy within Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, where the Bush administration wants to drill.
Sarah Christie, the Coastal Commission’s legislative coordinator said she hoped that Friday’s decision would not prompt louder calls to drill in the Arctic refuge.
“It’s certainly not the intent ... to push offshore oil exploration into a different but equally sensitive and magnificent and valuable place on the map,” she said.
California sued to block the exploration days after President Clinton’s Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt extended the leases for ten years in 1999.
The lawsuit contended that Babbitt’s decision was subject to review by the state under a federal law giving California authority to determine whether offshore drilling in federal waters is consistent with the state’s coastal protection plans.
Babbitt’s order allowed the companies to begin paperwork on their plans, but banned all physical work on the leases, including drilling wells, until the U.S. Minerals Management Service completed an environmental impact study on new drilling.
Under the Coastal Zone Management Act, amended in 1990, Congress gave states a say in any activity affecting coastal communities.
Mary Nichols, resources secretary to Gov. Gray Davis, said she was gratified by the decision.
“We were really not happy about having to file the lawsuit, but we believed – the governor believed – we were right on the law and it was important to defend California’s right to protect our coast,” Nichols said.
Davis said he will continue working to make sure California’s coastline remains protected.
“Nineteen months ago I said that when it comes to offshore oil leases, California is entitled to be the engine, not the caboose on the train,” Davis said in a statement.
“Should this decision be appealed, I will vigorously pursue all legal remedies to ensure that actions taken by federal agencies concerning leases for oil and gas production along the California coast fully comply with the law.”
The oil companies have paid $1.25 billion for the 40 leases, each covering about a nine square-mile expanse of ocean. The leases were issued between 1968 and 1984. Four of them expired in 1999.
Oil exploration off California’s coast has been an explosive issue since 1969, when a massive oil spill soiled the Santa Barbara coast.
Offshore rigs account for roughly 20 percent of the state’s petroleum production, and offshore gas could prove to be a key resource as California seeks to solve its energy crisis.
The oil companies affected by Friday’s decision include AERA Energy LLC of Bakersfield, Conoco Inc. and Nuevo Energy Co. of Houston; Samedan Oil Corp of Santa Barbara; and Poseidon Petroleum LLC, which could not be located. Calls to the other companies for comment were not immediately returned. The Western States Petroleum Association declined comment.
“I don’t know what the implications are at this point,” said the companies’ attorney, Steven Rosenbaum. He said he had not seen Wilken’s ruling and declined further comment.
“This is good news, Californians prize their coast and additional oil development has no place here,” said Bruce Hamilton, national conservation director for the Sierra Club.
“It’s good to know those promoting it have been set back and eventually we need permanent protection.”
Wilken, in a highly technical ruling, said that the federal government in 1999 illegally extended the companies’ 10-year leases. The extensions are called “suspensions” in legal jargon.
She said the government “must provide the state of California with a determination that its grant of the lease suspensions at issue here is consistent with California’s coastal management program.”
Wilken ordered all leases terminated until the federal Minerals Management Service complies with her order.
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Displaying items by tag: Serzh Sargsyan
A “historic” moment in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict?
By Elman Gafarov
July 29th, 2016, The CACI Analyst
2016 has become the year of most active peace talks on Nagorno-Karabakh conflict since its cease-fire in 1994. The reason is the deadly April clashes between the warring sides and the “wake-up” call to all mediators that the conflict can get out of control and cause serious damage to the regional security and stability in South Caucasus. Russia is particularly seen to be worried about this trend. Therefore, the high-level talks are held in an effort to change the status-quo on the ground and end the occupation of Azerbaijani territories. The positive trend can be nevertheless be derailed due to social and political unrest in Yerevan.
Armenia and the EU launch a third round of negotiations
By Erik Davtyan
June 13th, the CACI Analyst
On May 12, a new round of talks on the new legal framework between Armenia and the European Union kicked off in Yerevan. The delegations, headed by Armenia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Garen Nazarian and Dirk Schuebel, Head of Division for bilateral relations with the Eastern Partnership countries in the European External Action Service, discussed the provisions of the chapters pertaining to political dialogue, reforms, and cooperation in the fields of justice and freedoms.
Published in Field Reports
The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict at the center of Russia-Armenia relations
May 13th, the CACI Analyst
The unprecedented escalation of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict on April 2-5 is the topic of a process of intense discussions between Russian and Armenian authorities. After the Chiefs of Staff of Armenia’s and Azerbaijan’s armed forces, Yuri Khachaturov and Najmaddin Sadigov, reached an oral ceasefire agreement in Moscow, Russia immediately activated its policy toward the conflict, including several high-level visits to Yerevan and Baku for discussions with the respective authorities.
Nagorno-Karabakh confrontation highlights Russia's clout over warring parties
By Armen Grigoryan
April 15th, 2016, The CACI Analyst
Tensions along the line of contact in Nagorno-Karabakh between April 2 and 5 resulted in the heaviest exchanges of fire since 1994. Even though the use of some types of weapons was quite unexpected, the general logic of developments in the conflict in recent years has made the recent fighting rather predictable. Concerning further hostilities, the question is not if, but when they will happen. While this danger needs to be addressed by means of international mediation, so far only Russia demonstrates substantial activity in this regard. Russia’s unilateral involvement will pursue its own particular regional interests rather than producing a lasting solution to the conflict.
Armenia's president visits Greece and Cyprus
April 6th, the CACI Analyst
On March 14, Armenia’s President Serzh Sargsyan visited Athens on the official invitation of Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos. For 24 years, Armenia and Greece have enjoyed a high level of interstate relations manifested in mutual visits at the highest level.
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On This Day, November 21, 1783
Men fly over Paris
French physician Jean-François Pilatre de Rozier and François Laurent, the marquis d’ Arlandes, make the first untethered hot-air balloon flight, flying 5.5 miles over Paris in about 25 minutes. Their cloth balloon was crafted by French papermaking brothers Jacques-Étienne and Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, inventors of the world’s first successful hot-air balloons.
For time immemorial, humanity has dreamed of flight. Greek mythology tells of Daedalus, who made wings of wax, and Leonardo da Vinci drew designs of flying machines and envisioned the concept of a helicopter in the 15th century. It was not until the 1780s, however, that human flight became a reality.
The first successful flying device may not have been a Montgolfier balloon but an “ornithopter”–a glider-like aircraft with flapping wings. According to a hazy record, the German architect Karl Friedrich Meerwein succeeded in lifting off the ground in an ornithopter in 1781. Whatever the veracity of this record, Meerwein’s flying machine never became a viable means of flight, and it was the Montgolfier brothers who first took men into the sky.
Joseph and Étienne Montgolfier ran a prosperous paper business in the town of Vidalon in southern France. Their success allowed them to finance their interest in scientific experimentation. In 1782, they discovered that combustible materials burned under a lightweight paper or fabric bag would cause the bag to rise into the air. From this phenomenon, they deduced that smoke causes balloons to rise. Actually, it is hot air that causes balloons to rise, but their error did not interfere with their subsequent achievements.
On June 4, 1783, the brothers gave the first public demonstration of their discovery, in Annonay. An unmanned balloon heated by burning straw and wool rose 3,000 feet into the air before settling to the ground nearly two miles away. In their test of a hot-air balloon, the Montgolfiers were preceded by Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão, a Brazilian priest who launched a small hot-air balloon in the palace of the king of Portugal in 1709. The Montgolfiers were unaware of Lourenço’s work, however, and quickly surpassed it.
On September 19, the Montgolfiers sent a sheep, a rooster, and a duck aloft in one of their balloons in a prelude to the first manned flight. The balloon, painted azure blue and decorated with golden fleurs-de-lis, lifted up from the courtyard of the palace of Versailles in the presence of King Louis XVI. The barnyard animals stayed afloat for eight minutes and landed safely two miles away. On October 15, Jean-François Pilátre de Rozier made a tethered test flight of a Montgolfier balloon, briefly rising into the air before returning to earth.
The first untethered hot-air balloon flight occurred before a large, expectant crowd in Paris on November 21. Pilátre and d’Arlandes, an aristocrat, rose up from the grounds of royal Cháteau La Muette in the Bois de Boulogne and flew approximately five miles. Humanity had at last conquered the sky.
The Montgolfier brothers were honored by the French Acadámie des Sciences for their achievement. They later published books on aeronautics and pursued important work in other scientific fields.
For more events of the day, visit History.com.
For more about the Montgolfier Brothers, read Wikipedia
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Original TROUBLE Drummer JEFF 'OLY' OLSON Quits THE SKULL
Original TROUBLE drummer Jeff "Oly" Olson has decided to leave THE SKULL, the band he formed with fellow original TROUBLE member Eric Wagner (vocals) and longtime TROUBLE bassist Ron Holzner. "There is no animosity in the band and it was a friendly departure," reads a statement from Olson's wife and publicist, Leigh Olson.
Jeff tweeted earlier today (Friday, January 16): "I loved jamming with @TroubleTheSkull, but it's time to depart and wish the band all the best! Looking forward to my next chapter..."
THE SKULL released its debut album, "For Those Which Are Asleep", on November 4, 2014 via Tee Pee Records.
Written and recorded last spring, "For Those Which Are Asleep" was the first full-length album to feature Wagner, Holzner and Olson since the 1995 release of TROUBLE's critically acclaimed LP "Plastic Green Head".
Asked in an interview with Wormwood Chronicles if THE SKULL's CD was "a real artistic statement or more an exercise in nostalgia," Olson responded: "Oh, in no way nostalgic, except in that it will become that. It was very cool, because we pre-produced the record with us meeting in Ron's practice basement. The hospitality is just amazing there. So we got together there about four or five times putting together all of the music, writing it, constructing it together, and it just kept getting better and better. Actually, it started changing a little as it went, it got heavier, and we were just constantly blown away by the freshness of the material."
He continued: "A lot of times when you turn in a project, you're just beating a dead horse, but it's not like that at all in these sessions. So the entire time we were working on the items together as a group too, we were able to turn it on time with no stress about that. We had time to tweak and go back, try different mixes, and positioning of songs, longer than you would if you were in a hurry trying not to go past your deadline like most bands."
Olson added: "I love the record and feel it represents a departure from all our bios that we cling to, our early roots. We have to, that's why we're still around. This is THE SKULL and we sound like THE SKULL. We actually hear a difference in ourselves that is pretty cool."
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10 Avenue Montaigne, Paris - 75008
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Global study finds 44 genetic risk factors for major depression
Home Global study finds 44 genetic risk factors for major depression
LONDON (Reuters) – International scientists have identified 44 genetic variants that can increase the risk of developing major depression and found that all humans carry at least some of them.
The new findings could help explain why not everyone treated with antidepressants sees their condition improve, the scientists said, and could also point the way toward new medicines.
In the largest study of its kind, scientists also found that the genetic basis for depression is shared with other psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia and that a number of the variants are linked to the targets of antidepressant drugs.
Major depression affects around 14 percent of people worldwide and is the biggest contributor to long-term disability in the general population. Yet only about half of patients respond well to existing treatments.
“The new genetic variants discovered have the potential to revitalize depression treatment by opening up avenues for the discovery of new and improved therapies,” said Gerome Breen of King’s College London, who worked on the research team.
The study – published on Thursday in the journal Nature Genetics – was a global effort, with data covering more than 135,000 patients with major depression and around 344,000 controls as comparisons.
“This study has shed a bright light on the genetic basis of depression, but it is only the first step,” said Cathryn Lewis, another King’s College London expert who worked on the team.
“We need further research to uncover more of the genetic underpinnings, and to understand how genetics and environmental stressors work together to increase risk of depression.”
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3.3. Human rights
Next to making a website, the expositions we held in the school buildings and other subprojects, the students had to in this third phase, and at the same time and in combination with the part interviews, integrate the relevant values /rights in an antiracist, tolerant and pluralist attitude needed for life in a democracy. This we tried to secure in two steps.
About human rights we made it clear that these in principle should be central to education and should induce everyone to see all other humans as fundamentally equal.
‘Therefore one could do worse’, so I began a first lesson, ‘hang on every school entrance, next to a list of tables about poverty in Belgium and the world, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.’ That way everyone would learn that in 1948 almost all countries agreed in the General Assembly of the UN that all people without exception have, next to well-known rights like the freedom of expression (art. 19), also have the right to a job, the free choice of a profession, just and favorable working conditions and protection against unemployment (art. 23), that everyone has the right to freely move and stay within the borders of every state and leave whatever country, including his own, and return to it (art. 13), and that everyone also has the right to a living standard high enough for the health and well-being of both himself and his family, including food, clothes, housing and medical care and necessary social services (art. 25). Although democracy often is thought to equal a political system with free elections – what it also is – a society in which these rights and others are not secured cannot possibly be called a full democracy, even if it only was because one can’t easily find ones right to utter an opinion in the absence of the necessary standard of living or the knowledge that this is everyone’s right.’ (JWW, p.267-268)
These central (and relevant) values and/or rights the students had to weigh against the concrete political and judicial development of the rights of undocumented migrants over the last decades in Belgium – that for its treatment of refugee children has been condemned by the European Court for Human Rights more than once, and that has been reproached by Amnesty International for not signing the “economic” UN treaty that protects the rights of all labor migrants:
‘When a state chooses not to ratify the Convention it sends the message that it does not recognize the principle of the universality of human rights. For such a state the respect for the human rights of migrants ends at its borders.’ (JWW, p.272)
2. Two lessons about the three year before riots over the Mohammed cartoons made it clear to the students that a) since, according to the hard data of professor R. Pape, not religion but the occupation of the Muslim home countries by alien forces is the root cause of (suicide)terrorism, and b) a scientifically well documented Dutch report showed that Islam can very well be united with democracy and human rights, the UN leader was right to consider Islamophobia of the same type as anti-Semitism and that the cartoons in question were simply distasteful.
During these lessons in the playmaker course LVB/B we also worked with different kinds of discussion techniques, such as competition debates about relevant propositions (the principle we show here) to sharpen critical thinking, and class or group discussions to integrate the content into an overall perspective:
‘So, one: policy doesn’t always protect those it says it wants to protect. Two: the protection offer doesn’t cover reality anymore and where there is a small opening being made for economic reasons, this is solely out of self-interest. A third series of problems concerns the “arguments” for the “general interest” with which the firm asylum policy is mostly explained and defended. An example: “We cannot seriously give support or social security to people who weren’t born here and never worked here. Should we do this, our social bank would soon be empty.”
Up till this moment the students sat quietly listening, but when I gave this first argument they spontaneously interrupted the class. Sam was the first one: “But, the refugees and undocumented migrants … they all want to work, don’t they? I mean, that is what each and every one we interview told us no? They want to work legally. And when they could they would surely add to this social bank.” – “Yes. And being born here or not, come one, does that really matter? Isn’t that purely accidental?” Jolien said. “They also say, sir …” Julie added, “they take away our jobs. But why is there a shortage of jobs in their countries? Isn’t that at least partly because of the unequal relation between countries, as we have seen?”
Rather than go back to frontal teaching, I tried other arguments. “Don’t you all think it’s unfair competition when they work illegally and that way steal the jobs of Belgians?” Now it was Rob who got angry because I seemed to resist their general opinion: “Well, why don’t they make black white then, illegal legal?! Then they will be fair competitors and employers won’t be able to exploit them anymore. And I’ll tell you something else, is it their fault there aren’t enough jobs around? Shouldn’t politicians take care of that actually? We know so much money escapes taxation … that could very well be used to create more jobs now couldn’t it?! Well, what do you think about that?”
“Okay Rob, okay. I was just summing up you know. But what about this one: “When we would soften policy or open borders more, we will soon be flooded by refugees.” Here it took ‘m some seconds before someone responded. But it was either Lisa either Jennifer who took it on. “I think it’s logical more would come, yes. But can you please repeat what that was, this aging of our population and such … “ I needed to consult the papers, I didn’t have the numbers at hand. “Ah, here it is, page 9., I’ll read it to you: Because of the aging of our population there will be more non working people than working. The United Population Fund calculated that the fifteen original EU member states need per year 1,5 million immigrants to sustain the non working part of society and to keep population in balance until 2050.” – “Well then …” now Paco intervened, “then many more should come no? Then this argument for the “general interest” should be reversed no? And, on the other hand, is Belgium the only country receiving refugees then? Most refugees don’t even reach the wealthy countries.”’ (JWW, p.275-276)
It was clear that these students had distanced themselves from the most common arguments to defend the present policy, and had good arguments to do so. They definitely took sides with those who lacked human rights.
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(CNN) -- Sen. Barack Obama cautioned supporters Thursday against becoming complacent during the final days leading up to the election, noting he lost the New Hampshire primary despite a lead in the polls.
After debating Sen. John McCain, Sen. Barack Obama says there's still plenty of campaigning to be done.
"For those of you who are feeling giddy or cocky and think this is all set, I just [have] two words for you: New Hampshire," the Democratic presidential nominee said during a fundraiser breakfast in New York. "You know I've been in these positions before where we were favored and the press starts getting carried away and we end up getting spanked. And so that's another good lesson that Hillary Clinton taught me."
About 10 hours after debating Sen. John McCain, Obama urged top campaign contributors at the Metropolitan Club in Manhattan to not be overconfident, despite leading in a number of national polls.
A CNN Poll of Polls calculated Wednesday showed him leading 51 percent to 42 percent.
"We've got 19 days," Obama said. "We're going to have to work absolutely as hard as we've ever worked in our lives in order to just to get to the start of what is going to be a very difficult and very challenging but ultimately a very fulfilling four years where we can get this country back on track." Watch more of Obama's comments »
Hours later, Obama spoke to a crowd in Londonderry, New Hampshire, lashing out at McCain's debate tactics.
"Well, New Hampshire, last night we had a debate. I think you saw a bit of the McCain attack strategy in action," he said. "But here's what Sen. McCain doesn't seem to understand: With the economy in turmoil and the American dream at risk, the American people don't want to hear politicians attack each other -- you want to hear about how we're going to attack the challenges facing middle-class families each and every day."
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Obama urged McCain to "debate our genuine differences on the issues that matter" rather than making the Arizona senator's campaign "all about me."
"The truth is, this campaign is about you. It's about your jobs. It's about your health care. It's about your retirement. It's about your children's future," he added. Watch Obama discuss the economy »
McCain, speaking at an event in Downington, Pennsylvania, on Thursday, touched on his debate performance.
"We had a good debate last night. It was a lot of fun. ... I thought I did pretty well," he said to loud cheers.
McCain reiterated his position for taking America forward as economists say a recession is all but inevitable.
"We can't spend the next four years waiting for our luck to change ... I'll take us in a new direction," he said. "Our troubles are getting worse, our enemies watch and we have to fight, and that's what I'll do for you ... I'm not afraid of the fight, I'm ready for it."
McCain also urged voters there to help him win Pennsylvania -- a state where a CNN Poll of Polls shows Obama leading his counterpart 50 percent to 40 percent.
"I need your vote. We will carry Pennsylvania. ... We need your help. ... It's a close race, my friends," he said.
McCain also responded to Obama's assertions that his crowds are unruly and use dangerous language to describe the Illinois senator.
"I cannot tell you about how proud I am of you," he said. It was a line that he used in Wednesday night's debate. iReport.com: Obama survived knock-out punch
Obama and McCain are scheduled to speak Thursday night at the Alfred E. Smith dinner, a political tradition that dates back to 1945. It honors the first Catholic ever nominated for president and was begun by Francis J. Spellman, the archbishop of New York's Roman Catholic Archdiocese at the time.
The Republican presidential nominee will also appear on the "Late Show with David Letterman," after canceling an earlier appearance, which left the host fuming.
Also Thursday, McCain's running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, sounded a note of triumph about Wednesday's presidential debate while campaigning in Bangor, Maine.
"They [Obama and Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden] look to the past because they'd rather run against the current administration, it sounds like, and that strategy though, thankfully, it's really starting to wear very very thin," Palin said. "As John McCain reminded Barack Obama last night, if he wanted to run against George Bush, he had his chance four years ago. This year, the name on the ballot is John McCain -- and America knows that John McCain is his own man, he is the maverick."
Though Maine has trended Democratic for nearly two decades, the McCain campaign is making a push in the state's rural 2nd Congressional District, which is allotted one electoral vote independent of how the state votes at large. Despite the McCain camp's efforts, the Republican National Committee has stopped running advertisements in the state.
Palin later traveled to Elon, North Carolina. At an afternoon rally at Elon University, near Greensboro, Palin pressed the audience to stand firm against accusations of negative campaigning, and told them to pay "close attention" to Obama's record.
"It's not mean-spirited and it's not negative campaigning when you call someone out on their record," she said. "So don't let anyone, don't let them make you believe that you're being negative or mean-spirited or unpatriotic or unfair when you are asking about somebody's record, OK?"
After the rally, Palin continued on to a fundraiser at a home in Greensboro.
Biden is traveling to Los Angeles, California, taping appearances on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" and the "Ellen Degeneres Show."
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United States v. Curtiss-Wright
George Rasley, CHQ Editor | 2/15/17
Emboldened by Judge James L. Robart’s anti-constitutional power grab and the refusal of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to vacate his order temporarily restraining President Trump’s Executive Order 13,769 temporarily pausing immigration from seven terrorist hotspots Judge Leonie Brinkema, of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia has also chosen to seize the president’s Article II constitutional prerogatives. (To oppose this power grab please sign our Impeach Power Grabbing Judges Petition).
In a 22-page ruling Monday night, Judge Brinkema, said lawyers for President Trump had provided no evidence supporting the restriction of travel from seven majority-Muslim countries.
According to WTOP’s Neal Augenstein, Judge Brinkema said, "...they [the Trump administration] have not offered any evidence to identify the national security concerns that allegedly prompted this EO (executive order), or even described the process by which the president concluded that this action was necessary.”
The claim that the government has “not offered any evidence to identify the national security concerns that allegedly prompted this EO” is either incredibly bad pleading by the government’s lawyers, willful blindness on the part of Judge Brinkema – or an anti-constitutional power grab.
Last summer, Muna Osman Jama and Hinda Osman Dhirane, two Somali immigrants, were found guilty of conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization, and providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization after a bench trial in front of U.S. District Judge Anthony J. Trenga, right down the hall from Judge Brinkema’s court.
Somalia is a failed state that has no records that can be vetted to determine the identity or criminal history of anyone seeking entry to the United States and is one of the seven countries covered by President Trump’s Executive Order.
“Providing material support to foreign terrorist organizations is a very serious crime,” said Dana J. Boente, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. “These women funneled money to a terrorist organization which was conducting a violent insurgency campaign in Somalia. National security is the top priority in this office and we will continue to work closely with our law enforcement partners to investigate and prosecute those who provide material support to terrorists.”
“In addition to money they transferred in direct support of al-Shabaab, these subjects recruited, solicited, and advised an online group located in multiple countries as to how and where to transfer funds to this terrorist organization,” said Paul M. Abbate, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office. “In coordination of the group, these subjects would then track and facilitate donations to ensure the money was received by their co-conspirators located in Nairobi and Somaliland. Today's guilty verdicts send a message that facilitation of financial support to a designated terrorist organization equates to terrorist activity itself.”
Judge Nathaniel M. Gorton United States District Judge for the District of Massachusetts precisely refuted the arguments made by the plaintiffs in the case before Judge Brinkema. His ruling dismissing similar claims is found in the case of Louhghalam v. Trump:
There is a distinction, however, between the constitutional rights enjoyed by aliens who have entered the United States and those who are outside of it. See Zadvydas v. Davis, 533 U.S. 678, 693 (2001).
The decision to prevent aliens from entering the country is a “fundamental sovereign attribute” realized through the legislative and executive branches that is “largely immune from judicial control.” Chi Thon Ngo v. I.N.S., 192 F.3d 390, 395 (3d Cir. 1999), amended (Dec. 30, 1999) (quoting Shaughnessy v. United States ex rel. Mezei, 345 U.S. 206, 210 (1953)).
Federal classifications based on alien status are evaluated using rational basis review. Mathews v. Diaz, 426 U.S. 67, 83 (1976) (considering whether a law that made distinctions based on alien status was “wholly irrational”); Ruiz-Diaz v. United States, 703 F.3d 483, 486–87 (9th Cir. 2012) (determining that a regulation that treated immigrant religious workers differently than other visa applicants would be evaluated using rational basis review); Narenji v. Civiletti, 617 F.2d 745, 748 (D.C. Cir. 1979) (upholding a regulation issued in response to the Iran hostage crisis that required non-immigrant alien Iranian students to provide information to Immigration and Naturalization Services Offices).
Rational basis review examines whether the “classification at issue bears some fair relationship to a legitimate public purpose.” Plyler, 457 U.S. at 216. It is “not a license for courts to judge the wisdom, fairness, or logic of legislative choices.” Heller v. Doe by Doe, 509 U.S. 312, 319–20 (1993) (quoting FCC v. Beach Communications, Inc., 508 U.S. 307, 313 (1993)).
Under rational basis review, a classification is permissible “if there is any reasonably conceivable state of facts that could provide a rational basis.” Id. (quoting Beach Communications, 508 U.S. at 313).
Because the EO involves federal government categorizations with respect to non-resident aliens, rational basis review applies. According to the EO, its purpose is to ensure the proper review and maximum utilization of available resources for the screening of foreign nationals, and to ensure that adequate standards are established to prevent infiltration by foreign terrorists . . . .
Exec. Order 13,769 § 3(c). The EO specifically asserts that permitting aliens from the countries identified in section 217(a) of the INA, 8 U.S.C. § 1187(a)(12), to enter “would be detrimental to the United States.” The order provides a reasonably conceivable state of facts [which concerns national security and] that could provide a rational basis for the classification. Heller, 509 U.S. at 319–20.
Accordingly, this Court declines to encroach upon the “delicate policy judgment” inherent in immigration decisions. Plyler, 457 U.S. at 225.
Judge Gorton also found that, “In light of the government’s clarification that the EO will not be applied to lawful permanent residents, the claims for injunctive relief by plaintiffs Louhghalam, Tootkaboni, Sanie, Fatemeh Moghadam and Babak Moghadam are moot. With respect to those individuals, there is “no ongoing conduct to enjoin”. Town of Portsmouth v. Lewis, 813 F.3d 54, 58 (1st Cir. 2016). Thus, any declaration with respect to the lawfulness of the EO would be strictly advisory. See New Eng. Reg’l Council of Carpenters v. Kinton, 284 F.3d 9, 18 (1st Cir. 2002) (remarking that it would be “pointless” to declare the constitutionality of a policy that had been revised during litigation).
If terrorism, as proven in the same court house where Judge Brinkema sits on the bench, isn’t a “rational basis” for President Trump’s Executive Order 13,769 then what, in the Judge’s eyes, would justify pausing immigration from a country known to harbor people hostile to the United States?
The answer, of course, is that it is not Judge Brinkema’s role in our federal republic to make such decisions, it is the President’s constitutional prerogative to do so.
The behavior of Judge Robart and Judge Brinkema clearly falls under "high crimes and misdemeanors," offenses that the US Constitution explicitly defines as grounds for removal of a judge through impeachment. The time is now for the House of Representatives to act with the authority vested in it by the Constitution and remove Federal District Judge James L. Robart of the Western District of Washington and Judge Leonie Brinkema, of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, from the bench.
We urge CHQ readers to join us in demanding that Representative Robert Goodlatte (VA-6) Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee immediately holding hearings on the impeachment of Judge James L. Robart and Judge Leonie Brinkema by signing our Impeach Power Grabbing Judges Petition.
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Archive for the ‘Trade’ Category
July 17th, 2019 Emilio Casalicchio
U.K. Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay dismissed claims he told EU Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier the withdrawal deal is “dead” during an angry exchange in Brussels last week.
The Times reported the pair had a tense meeting over how the Brexit issue could be resolved by the next prime minister.
“He told Barnier that the Withdrawal Agreement was dead — not once but five times,” a senior EU diplomat told the paper. “If this is what is coming then we will be heading for no-deal very quickly.”
But appearing before MPs on the Brexit select committee this morning, Barclay said the reports about the spat were “misleading.”
He said: “In terms of the Withdrawal Agreement, what I said was that the House [of Commons] had rejected it three times, including the third time by a significant margin; that the European election results in my view had further hardened attitudes across the house and that the text, unchanged, I did not envisage going through the house.”
He added: “I don’t think that was a particularly controversial observation.”
Barclay said he asked Barnier to agree a side deal on citizens’ rights and data sharing, but said he did not ask about whether the two sides could agree continued trade arrangements under the so-called GATT 24 rules after a no-deal Brexit.
A spokesman for Barnier refused to comment on the meeting, but pointed to the tweet the EU chief sent out after the meeting, in which he said agreeing a Brexit deal “remains our priority.”
Elsewhere at the hearing, Barclay suggested the government could try to compensate sheep farmers if they have to slaughter flocks after a no-deal Brexit, saying there is a “huge amount of effort” going into the issue, including meetings with industry bodies this week.
He also suggested car manufacturers could be awarded compensation if they are hit with a 10 percent tariff following a no-deal departure.
He said British Prime Minister Theresa May is meeting with car manufacturers this week, adding: “We would also have to look at what support we can give to the industry and there are various computations of that.”
But anti-Brexit group Best for Britain said any compensation for car manufacturers following a no-deal departure would have to be worth more than £25 billion.
Barclay also suggested the U.K. would take a “continuity approach” to fishing waters after a no-deal, suggesting EU boats would continue to enjoy access to British seas. And he said the possibility of the U.K. leaving the bloc without a deal on October 31 is “underpriced.”
Posted in Cars, No-deal Brexit, Politics, Tariffs, Trade, citizens' rights, data Tags: after brexit, brexit, brexit comments, brexit government, brexit live news, brexit news, elections, UK BREXIT No Comments »
July 15th, 2019 Annabelle Dickson
LONDON — Billed as the “final showdown” between the two men vying to become the U.K.’s next prime minister, the last Conservative leadership hustings turned out to be more sickly love-in than gladiatorial combat.
For Conservative Party members who will choose the next prime minister still wavering over whether to back Boris Johnson or Jeremy Hunt, in the final reckoning on Monday, there was little to divide the two privately educated senior Tories.
With their positions and debating lines now well rehearsed after nearly a month of clashes, the evening generated more warmth than light.
Both made it clear they would not accept a hypothetical five-year time limit to the Northern Irish backstop (even though the EU is offering no such change to the Brexit deal). Both agreed that the U.S. has taken the wrong approach to the Iran nuclear deal. And both condemned President Donald Trump over his attack on four congresswomen of color — although they refused to call it explicitly “racist.”
Voting in the Tory leadership contest begun 10 days ago, meaning many of the 160,000 Conservative members have already cast their ballots ahead of an announcement on July 23. Johnson is the strong favorite, according to several polls of party members, but for those who are yet to decide, it will likely come down more to character as opposed to any stark policy dividing line between the two candidates.
On course for no deal
With eyes on a largely pro-Brexit Tory electorate, both candidates at the event hosted by the Sun newspaper and TalkRADIO took a hard line on Britain’s departure from the European Union.
Johnson repeated his vow to leave on the Brexit deadline of October 31 come what may while Hunt stuck to his more flexible stance on that deadline. But as the race has gone on, the foreign secretary has hardened his rhetoric on other aspects of the U.K.’s departure from the EU.
One route mooted by some in the Tory party as a way to get MPs to back the backstop would be to give it an expiry date. But even if such a time limit could be negotiated with Brussels — a doubtful proposition — neither candidate said it would make the deal currently on the table more palatable.
Asked if he would accept a five-year time limit on the Northern Irish insurance policy, Johnson answered “no to the time limit, or unilateral escape hatches or all of these kind of elaborate devices, glosses codicils and so on you could apply to the backstop,” which he went on to describe as an “instrument of our own incarceration within the customs union and the single market.”
Hunt, who supported May’s deal with the backstop, declared the “backstop as it is is dead.”
“I agree with Boris, I don’t think tweaking it with a time limit will do the trick,” he added.
Message to Trump
The two men also agreed on their approach to Trump. Perhaps chastened by accusations that last week that he had not stood up to the U.S. president over his attack on British Ambassador to Washington Kim Darroch (Trump had called the diplomat a “pompous fool”), Johnson was more forthright over Trump’s latest Twitter blast.
The former foreign secretary condemned Trump’s attack on Democratic congresswomen of color at the weekend as “totally unacceptable,” adding that he could not understand why the U.S. president had made it.
Trump tweeted Sunday that the four women, who “originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe,” should “go back” and fix issues in those countries before telling him how to run the U.S. government.
Trump’s tirade was directed at Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley, who were born in the U.S., and Ilhan Omar, who arrived in the country as a refugee from Somalia aged 12.
“It is totally unacceptable in a modern multi-racial country which you’re trying to lead,” Johnson said of U.S. president’s remarks.
Asked multiple times whether he thought the remarks were racist, Johnson refused to condemn them as such. But he said: “You can take from what I’ve said what I think about Mr. Trump’s remarks.”
Hunt also refused to describe the comments as racist, but said it was “totally offensive … that people are still saying that kind of thing.”
Those comments may come back to haunt both candidates with a president who has shown he rarely forgets or ignores a crossed word from overseas partners.
And both men acknowledged several times the importance of the relationship with Washington. Earlier, Johnson said he wanted to do a quick trade with the U.S. and suggested that such an agreement would be an opportunity to raise standards in U.S. agriculture.
Asked if he would accept chlorine-washed chicken from the U.S. into U.K. markets, something that is highly controversial with British consumers but the U.S. has made clear it wants, Johnson said he would not.
“I’m not in favor of importing anything from the U.S. that involves lower animal welfare standards or lower hygiene,” he said.
“We should use [a trade deal] as an incentive to lift their standards to match ours,” he added.
Most trade experts expect a post-Brexit U.K. as the far smaller economy to have a weak bargaining position in trade negotiations with the U.S. and so be forced to accept most demands from Washington in order to do a deal quickly.
Immigration clash
The most stark difference of the night between the two contenders was over immigration.
While Johnson, who led the Vote Leave campaign with a pledge to “Take Back Control,” refused to “play a numbers game” when asked about immigration levels, Hunt said people had voted Brexit “with an expectation that overall levels of net immigration would come down.”
“I believe that people would think we were betraying the spirit of that Brexit referendum if we didn’t find a way of bringing down overall numbers,” he said.
With Johnson the clear favorite to take the keys to No. 10 Downing Street, Hunt — perhaps with a view to keeping his job as foreign secretary — appeared to pull his punches rather than go after his rival.
At one point, Johnson was being grilled over whether his partner would move into No. 10 with him. Hunt tried a joke about the Brexiteer figurehead moving in next door to him if Hunt won the top job — a reference to the traditional residence of the U.K.’s finance minister, the chancellor of the exchequer.
Despite the bonhomie, the olive branch did not pay off for Hunt. Johnson refused to return the favor of an implicit senior job offer.
Posted in Animal welfare, Borders, British politics, Customs Union, No-deal Brexit, Nuclear Deal, Politics, Single Market, Trade, agriculture, immigration, negotiations Tags: after brexit, brexit, brexit comments, brexit government, brexit live news, brexit news, UK BREXIT No Comments »
Boris Johnson: Trump’s ‘go home’ attack was ‘totally inappropriate’
July 15th, 2019 James Randerson, Annabelle Dickson
LONDON — Boris Johnson, the former U.K. foreign secretary, said Donald Trump’s Twitter attack on Democratic congresswomen of color was “totally unacceptable,” adding that he could not understand why the U.S. president had made them.
“It is totally unacceptable in a modern multi-racial country which you’re trying to lead,” he said of U.S. president’s remarks at a Conservative party leadership debate hosted by the Sun newspaper and Talk Radio, although he refused to condemn the tweets as “racist.”
His tirade was directed at Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley, who were born in the U.S., and Ilhan Omar, who arrived in the country as a refugee from Somalia aged 12.
Asked at the debate multiple times whether he though the remarks were racist, Johnson — who is the front-runner in the contest to be the U.K.’s next prime minister — refused to condemn them as such. But he said: “You can take from what I’ve said what I think about Mr Trump’s remarks.”
“You simply cannot use that kind of language,” he added.
Earlier on Monday, a spokesman for Theresa May said: “The prime minister’s view is that the language used to refer to these women was completely unacceptable.”
Johnson’s rival for the leadership, Jeremy Hunt, who is the current foreign secretary, said it was “totally offensive … that people are still saying that kind of thing.”
The final debate of the leadership campaign was a largely chummy affair, with both candidates agreeing more than they clashed. At one point, Johnson approved of a point Hunt had made on Brexit. “I like the way you’re talking, Jeremy,” he interjected, before Hunt joked back: “Good, good. Join my Cabinet, Boris.”
Earlier, Johnson suggested that a post-Brexit trade deal with America would be an opportunity to raise standards in U.S. agriculture.
“I’m not in favour of importing anything from the U.S. that involves lower animal welfare standards or lower hygiene,” he said.
Posted in Animal welfare, British politics, Politics, Trade, agriculture Tags: after brexit, brexit, brexit comments, brexit government, brexit live news, brexit news, UK BREXIT No Comments »
UK trade secretary: Johnson’s pre-Brexit US trade deal won’t work
July 15th, 2019 Isabella Borshoff
U.K. Trade Secretary Liam Fox on Monday ruled out a pre-Brexit trade deal with the United States, dismissing reported plans by Conservative leadership frontrunner Boris Johnson to negotiate an agreement with Washington before the U.K. leaves the European Union.
Johnson wants to hash out a limited transatlantic deal before October 31 — the date Britain is slated to leave the EU, barring another extension — if he is elected as the U.K.’s next prime minister, according to the Times. But the trade secretary said doing so would contravene European law.
“We can’t negotiate anything with the U.S. until after we’ve left the European Union,” Fox told BBC’s Today program. “It would be in breach of European law for us to do that.”
Fox also took aim at Johnson’s position on food standards in a potential U.K.-U.S. trade deal. Johnson said in a live Telegraph event last week he would insist the U.S. obey British food standards.
“If you go to the U.S. and you say we’re going to take any discussions on agricultural access off the agenda, you’ll find that they close down pretty quickly in terms of the willingness to discuss things,” Fox said.
But the U.K. “should be trying to get an agreement with the U.S. as quickly as we possibly can,” he added.
Posted in Food, Politics, Trade, Trade Agreements, Transatlantic relations Tags: after brexit, brexit, brexit comments, brexit government, brexit live news, brexit news, transatlantic, UK BREXIT No Comments »
Mainstream parties block Euroskeptics from top Parliament posts
July 10th, 2019 David M. Herszenhorn, Maïa de La Baume
Mainstream, pro-EU political parties in the European Parliament moved aggressively to block Euroskeptic and extremist groups from claiming several prominent committee leadership posts on Wednesday.
That blocking effort enraged anti-establishment forces and potentially put at risk an overall deal on the EU’s future leadership.
One group leader, Ryszard Legutko of the right-wing European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), pointedly warned that his MEPs were less likely to support the deal on top jobs agreed by European leaders last week after one of their members — former Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydło — was blocked from becoming chairwoman of the Employment and Social Affairs Committee.
Anti-establishment forces, including far-right and extremist groups, gained strength in the recent European election. The new Identity and Democracy (ID) group, a partnership between Matteo Salvini’s League in Italy and Marine Le Pen’s National Rally in France, is now the fifth-largest group with 73 MEPs — just two fewer than the Greens.
Together, ID and ECR have 135 MEPs, far more than the 108 seats controlled by the liberal-centrist Renew Europe, backed by French President Emmanuel Macron.
But pro-European forces overall control 519 seats and they wielded that muscle Wednesday to deny the insurgent groups several positions, effectively upending the so-called D’Hondt method by which leadership positions are traditionally apportioned among parliamentary groups.
ID had expected to hold the chair of the agriculture committee but its nominee, French MEP Maxette Pirbakas, was blocked by the four pro-EU parties. They instead elected Norbert Lins, a German MEP from the conservative European People’s Party. Pirbakas was then also rejected for two vice chair positions, before voting was suspended for the final spots.
In one of the most bitter stings for the far right, the pro-EU groups also voted down an ID candidate, French MEP Gilles Lebreton of National Rally, who had expected to be chairman of the Committee on Legal Affairs.
Instead, a British liberal, Lucy Nethsingha, was elected to head the panel, which among other responsibilities maintains oversight of the limited parliamentary immunity enjoyed by MEPs. Nethsingha may be out of the Parliament come October 31 after Britain leaves the EU.
József Szájer, an MEP from Hungary’s ruling Fidesz party who chaired the initial vote in the legal affairs committee, had implored colleagues to respect the handshake agreement and the proportional formula.
“I would like to ask you, as the legal affairs committee, to observe the old traditions of the rule of law of our committees and elections, which is based on agreements by political groups,” Szájer said. “We have worked with those rules for 40 years, and if those agreements are not upheld, the consequences are unforeseeable.”
But the pro-EU MEPs were unmoved by the request from Szájer. Sylvie Guillaume, a French socialist, accused ID of having transparent motives in seeking to lead the legal affairs committee, known as JURI. “It fools no one that they chose the JURI committee, where parliamentary immunities are waived,” Guillaume said.
When Le Pen was an MEP in 2017, for example, Parliament voted to lift her immunity over pictures she tweeted of Islamic State violence.
While the blocking maneuvers essentially maintained the cordon sanitaire that pro-EU groups have used to limit the power of extremists and nationalists, the rising strength of the anti-establishment groups raises the possibility of a backlash.
Several MEPs, infuriated by the blocking effort, warned of just such reprisal in the months and years ahead.
The Euroskeptics and nationalists currently do not hold any vice presidency position in the Parliament, a remarkable absence from leadership given their overall numbers in the assembly. That means they still have no MEPs to chair plenary sittings nor any representation in the Parliament’s “bureau,” where the most important decisions on the workings of the Parliament are made.
One Euroskeptic in Parliament accused the pro-EU groups of hypocrisy, by claiming to be defenders of democracy while denying representation to minority parties.
“This is the only parliament in Europe that doesn’t give any minimal guarantee to minorities,” said a senior official from the ID group.
Pro-EU MEPs even moved quickly to disqualify candidates from the EU-critical Fidesz, which is led by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and has been suspended from the EPP’s pan-European party organization, but not the parliamentary group.
The Committee on Civil Liberties failed to elect its full leadership after a center-left coalition blocked a Fidesz candidate for vice chair. Rather than allow the election of Hungarian MEP Balázs Hidvéghi, the pro-EU groups nominated Damien Carême, a French Greens member.
Fidesz was not entirely denied, however: Its MEP Tamás Deutsch won a vice chair position on the budgetary control committee.
The vote against Szydło, Poland’s former prime minister, prompted the fiercest response. After she was voted down, ECR leaders warned their MEPs were far less likely to support the overall cross-party deal on the EU’s future leadership including the nomination of German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen for Commission president.
“We are incredibly disappointed with the behavior of some MEPs in the employment committee today,” said Legutko, the Polish leader of ECR. “At the European elections, Beata Szydło received the highest number of preference votes in Polish history and one of the highest of any individual across the whole EU. That MEPs in the Parliament’s employment committee would reject her candidacy as chair is an insult to her voters and hardly encourages us to support a cross-party consensus next week.”
Lili Bayer, Laurens Cerulus, Laura Kayali, John Rega and Eddy Wax contributed reporting.
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The next European Commission: What we know so far
July 10th, 2019 Lili Bayer
The next European Commission is taking shape.
The current EU executive remains in office until the end of October but some governments have already announced their candidates for the next five-year term.
That doesn’t mean all of those nominees will end up at the Commission’s Berlaymont headquarters in Brussels. Every nominee will need the approval of the Commission’s new president and the European Parliament to take office.
Ursula von der Leyen, the European Council’s nominee for Commission president, herself still needs to be confirmed by the European Parliament.
But the announcements so far give a good indication of who’s staying, who’s joining and who’s leaving.
Here’s what we know so far:
WHO’S STAYING
Valdis Dombrovskis, Latvia, European People’s Party (EPP)
Current role: The European Commission’s vice president for the euro and social dialogue
Expected role in the new Commission: Latvia is hoping to get a portfolio connected to finance and the economy, according to one official.
Mariya Gabriel, Bulgaria, EPP
Current role: European commissioner for digital economy and society
Expected role in the new Commission: Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov has said that he turned down the post of high representative for foreign policy for his country and wants a “a commissioner with a real portfolio.” He also said he would be keen to keep the digital portfolio for Bulgaria.
Phil Hogan, Ireland, EPP
Current role: European commissioner for agriculture
Expected role in the new Commission: Hogan could stay on as agriculture commissioner, but his name has also been floated as a possible trade commissioner.
Maroš Šefčovič, Slovakia, Party of European Socialists (PES)
Current role: European Commission vice president in charge of the energy union
Expected role in the new Commission: Slovakia is hoping to get a vice president role with a “strong portfolio,” according to one official.
Frans Timmermans, Netherlands, PES
Current role: European Commission first vice president
Expected role in the new Commission: While Timmermans’ party is not in power in his home country, the Netherlands is nevertheless expected to nominate him. He is likely to take the position of first vice president in the new Commission.
Margrethe Vestager, Denmark, Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE)
Current role: European commissioner for competition
Expected role in the new Commission: Vestager is also expected to take a senior post in the new Commission, under a deal agreed by the European Council of EU leaders.
WHO’S JOINING
Josep Borrell, Spain, PES
Current role: Spain’s minister for foreign affairs
Expected role in the new Commission: The Council has nominated Borrell as the next EU high representative overseeing foreign affairs and security policy.
Nicolas Schmit, Luxembourg, PES
Current role: Member of the European Parliament and former minister for labor, employment, and social economy. Luxembourg’s government is set to nominate Schmit as part of a coalition deal.
Expected role in the new Commission: Schmit has expressed interest in a social policy portfolio.
Kadri Simson, Estonia, ALDE
Current role: Simson served as Estonia’s minister of economic affairs from 2016 until 2019.
Expected role in the new Commission: It’s not certain what role Simson could receive, but in a letter to the Council, Prime Minister Jüri Ratas highlighted her expertise in energy, transport and the internal market.
László Trócsányi, Hungary, EPP
Current role: Trócsányi served as Hungary’s justice minister from 2014 until 2019 and is now a member of the European Parliament.
Expected role in the new Commission: “I certainly have some preferences in this matter but I think it’s too early to talk about them yet,” Trócsányi said in response to a question from POLITICO. According to one senior Fidesz official, Trócsányi is interested in the enlargement portfolio.
Jutta Urpilainen, Finland, PES
Current role: A member of Finland’s parliament, Urpilainen served as the country’s finance minister from 2011 until 2014.
Expected role in the new Commission: While it remains unclear what position Finland would get, Urpilainen’s experience could lead to a finance-oriented portfolio.
Ursula von der Leyen, Germany, EPP
Current role: German defense minister
Expected role in the new Commission: The Council nominated von der Leyen to become the next president of the European Commission.
OTHER POSSIBLE MEMBERS
Johannes Hahn, Austria, EPP
Current role: European commissioner for neighborhood policy and enlargement
It’s possible that Austria will nominate Hahn for another term. As the country is currently being governed by a technocratic interim Cabinet, the major parties in the Austrian parliament will have to agree on a candidate. The far-right Freedom Party’s leader Norbert Hofer, for one, has said he can “imagine” Hahn staying at the Commission.
Věra Jourová, Czech Republic, ALDE
Current role: European commissioner for justice, consumers and gender equality
Jourová is hoping to stay at the Berlaymont, but much depends on a brewing domestic political crisis in Prague.
Pedro Marques, Portugal, PES
Current role: Member of the European Parliament and former minister
Portugal’s government is hoping to nominate Marques and is eyeing the regional development portfolio.
WHO’S LEAVING
Andrus Ansip, Estonia, ALDE
Current role: Ansip was the European Commission’s vice president for the digital single market but has resigned to take up a seat in the European Parliament.
Elżbieta Bieńkowska, Poland, EPP
Current role: European commissioner for the internal market, industry, entrepreneurship and SMEs
Miguel Arias Cañete, Spain, EPP
Current role: European commissioner for climate action and energy
Corina Creţu, Romania, PES
Current role: Creţu was the European commissioner for regional policy but has resigned to take up a seat in the European Parliament.
Jean-Claude Juncker, Luxembourg, EPP
Current role: President of the European Commission
Jyrki Katainen, Finland, EPP
Current role: The European Commission’s vice president for jobs, growth, investment and competitiveness
Julian King, United Kingdom, unaffiliated
Current role: European commissioner for the security union
Carlos Moedas, Portugal, EPP
Current role: European commissioner for research, science and innovation
Neven Mimica, Croatia, PES
Current role: European commissioner for international cooperation and development
Federica Mogherini, Italy, PES
Current role: High representative for foreign affairs and security policy
Pierre Moscovici, France, PES
Current role: European commissioner for economic and financial affairs, taxation and customs
Tibor Navracsics, Hungary, EPP
Current role: European commissioner for education, culture, youth and sport
Günther Oettinger, Germany, EPP
Current role: European commissioner for budget and human resources
Marianne Thyssen, Belgium, EPP
Current role: European commissioner for employment, social affairs, skills and labor mobility
Laura Kayali contributed reporting.
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The future of UK services trade is unlikely to be bright, whatever form Brexit takes
July 9th, 2019 Artemis Photiadou
When it comes to trade in services, leaving the Single Market will result in increased regulatory costs and could have significant effects on the volume and composition of UK services exports, writes Olga Pindyuk.
In the Brexit debate, trade in services has been largely overlooked in favour of trade in goods. This is despite the UK being the second biggest exporter of services in the world and having one of the highest shares in total exports among leading economies (Figure 1). Moreover, the EU is a major market for UK services, having accounted for about 49% of the country’s total services exports in 2017.
When talking about sector specialisation of services exporters, London as the UK’s financial hub comes to mind. But the UK is competitive in a broad range of services, with ‘other business services’ – a combination of legal, accounting, management consulting, and public relations services – being most prominent in cross-border trade, having accounted for 33.5% of the sector’s total exports in 2016 according to WTO data. The second biggest subsector is architectural, engineering, scientific, and other technical services (14.6%), followed by advertising, market research, and public opinion polling services (10.1%). In the transport sector, air transport accounts for almost two-thirds of exports.
As a member of the Single Market, the UK has access to a market of over 500 million consumers, to the free flow of data between EU members, and to passporting rights, which allow financial companies to sell services in any EU country without having to set up a branch there. In other words, the Single Market allows the UK to supply more services through cross-border trade rather than through costly commercial presence. Passporting rights are also a very important reason why the UK has been used as an EU base by US and Japanese financial firms.
Important for the professional services sector is also the free movement of people. For example, UK companies can employ European staff in the UK or send their workers on trips to the EU to consult clients, provide technical support to users of their products, broker and draft contracts, and so on. As migration concerns were crucial for the Brexit vote, movement restrictions are probably the most binding constraint on the government, making free movement unlikely to be a part of any deal, which significantly limits the options available for the services trade.
If the UK opts for a divorce that precludes it from participation in the Single Market in services, it will inevitably face increased regulatory costs: relevant providers in the UK will face heterogenous regulations in each Member State, which implies an increase in trading costs. With a rise in cross-border trade barriers there would also be a relative increase in the proportion of services provided via a more costly commercial presence within the EU. The process has already started due to the political uncertainty that has surrounded Brexit since 2016, and has so far been most visible in the financial sector where more than 250 firms have moved or are moving business elsewhere.
The biggest losses would take place if the country crashed out of the EU without any agreement and had to trade with the bloc on WTO terms, which envisage a very limited scope of liberalisation under the General Agreement on Trade in Services. Even concluding a free trade agreement with the EU will result in a significant rise in the barriers to services trade – the EU’s recent agreement with South Korea and Japan, for example, does not address regulatory issues around authorisations and licensing, with processes varying between Member States.
It is nonetheless possible that Brexit could result in more advanced services liberalisation than previous EU agreements. But in order to achieve this, any preferential access to the EU market that the UK might seek will need to be part of a comprehensive agreement, otherwise the EU may be obliged to extend more favourable conditions to its other trading partners according to the most favoured nation principle. Politically feasible options of such an agreement are deals similar to the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement or CETA+, which offer limited scope of liberalisation. The UK could possibly secure mutual recognition that would cover some professional qualifications and licensing for various sectors. Still, the scope of a deal will most likely be limited.
Comparison of the values of the OECD Services Trade Restriction Index for intra- and extra-EEA trade (Figure 2) shows that countries outside the Single Market face the highest barriers to trade with EEA members in air transport and a range of professional services: legal, accounting, architecture, and engineering. It is in these sectors that the UK is likely to experience the highest increase in trade costs.
The US is the most important market for UK services exporters outside the EU (20.5% of total services exports in 2017), but substantial reorientation of British services exports to this and other non-EU markets is unlikely as geography matters to services trade almost as much as to trade in goods. This is due to factors such as the need of face-to-face interactions, the inconvenience of operating in different time zones and so on, all of which tend to result in services exports being quite localised geographically.
Just how severely Brexit will affect the services trade will depend on the form it takes; however, it seems increasingly likely that under all feasible options the UK will face increased regulatory costs.
Note: the above draws on the author’s published report available here.
Olga Pindyuk is an Economist at the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies.
All articles posted on this blog give the views of the author(s), and not the position of LSE British Politics and Policy, nor of the London School of Economics and Political Science. Featured image credit: Pixabay (Public Domain).
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Mr. Tang received, from Tongji University, his B.S. in Electronics & Information Engineering in 2003, and his M.S. in Communication Engineering from the Technical University of Munich in 2006. Mr. Tang worked as a system engineer in ALI Corporation after his graduation and then joined China Patent Agent (H.K.) Ltd. in 2007, and qualified as a patent attorney in the same year. He was admitted to practice law in 2009. He received further training on European patent law and practice with a law firm in Germany in the same year. Mr. Tang specializes in the drafting and prosecution of patent applications in the fields such as telecommunications, image processing, computer, communication network, etc. Mr. Tang's areas of practice also include litigation support and preparation of invalidity and non-infringement opinions. He is a member of All-China Patent Agents Association. Working languages: Chinese, English and German.
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Entrepreneurship In Africa Master Class: Meet The Entrepreneurs
Columbia Business School
Joseph Mfugale began his career as a carpenter in 1967. Although his formal schooling ended after the sixth grade, he went on to run two dry-goods stores, which qualified him for a $30,000 loan from the Tanzanian National Bank of Commerce. In 1992, Mfugale opened the 27-room Peacock Hotel. In 2006, he self-financed and opened 66 additional rooms and in 2007, Mfugale secured a $2 million loan from the East Africa Development Bank to build an additional 75 luxury suites, a conference center and a spa. Working with his son, Damasi, Mfugale also secured from the government the operating lease for the Millennium Hotel, an upscale hotel on the outskirts of the Dar es Salaam center. This new property is the Mfugales' first step toward branding the Peacock Hotel as a quality hotel chain. As part of their company's growth plan, the Mfugales' next step is to develop a luxury hotel and resort on beachfront property on the Kigamboni peninsula near Dar es Salaam. The Mfugales purchased the Kigamboni plot from the government for $100,000. If they don't begin construction by August 2009, the government can exercise its right to take back the land. The Mfugales have also targeted two other areas for hotels: Iringa, southwest from Dar es Salaam, and Arusha, a safari hot spot near Kilimanjaro. Damasi Mfugale, who earned his MBA from the University of Lausanne in Switzerland and worked for the Omni Hotel in North Carolina and the Savoy in London, plans to move the Peacock Hotel brand into its next growth phase before his father retires.
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Saudi Prince bought Da Vinci painting by $450 million
Posted By: daily industryon: December 08, 2017 In: Biz World, Entertaintment, World WideNo Comments
KSA Correspondent: Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is the actual buyer of a painting by Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci that sold for a record-breaking $450 million at auction last month.
The young and dynamic crown prince, known by his initials MBS, used an intermediary to buy the much-sought-after painting of Christ, “Salvator Mundi,” the newspaper reported, citing US intelligence and other unnamed sources.
The son of Saudi King Salman is seen to be progressively consolidating his power, and is the architect of a wide-ranging plan dubbed Vision 2030 to bring social and economic change to his country’s oil-dependent economy.
He is also seen as the mastermind of last month’s rounding-up of more than 200 princes, ministers and businessmen in a sweeping anti-corruption purge.
The painting — one of fewer than 20 works generally accepted as being by the Renaissance master, according to Christie’s — was bought by little-known Prince Bader bin Abdullah bin Mohammed bin Farhan al-Saud, reports say.
The Journal reported that Bader was the nominal buyer, but said MBS was identified in US intelligence reports as the true owner. “He is a proxy for MBS,” an unnamed figure in the Gulf art world told the Journal.
American officials are keeping close tabs on the crown prince, the paper said, citing unnamed sources.
On Wednesday, the Louvre Abu Dhabi announced that the record-breaking Da Vinci painting would be displayed there.
The reports come shortly after the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia announced the formation of a new military and economic committee, separate from the Gulf Cooperation Council.
In recent years, Qatar has been the biggest player in the Gulf art world, but in June, Saudi Arabia and some of its allies broke off diplomatic and trade relations with Doha, which they accuse of supporting extremist movements.
“Salvator Mundi” — dated to around 1500 — is the last known Da Vinci in the hands of a private collector. It was long believed to be a copy but was finally authenticated about a dozen years ago.
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Nov. 08, 2017 | 12:08 AM
Fox held talks to sell most of company to Disney
The Twenty-First Century Fox Studios lot is seen in Los Angeles, California U.S. November 6, 2017. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson
Lisa RichwineJessica Toonkel| Reuters
A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Daily Star on November 08, 2017, on page 5.
Time Warner Inc.
Twenty-First Century Fox Inc.
Amazon.com Inc
Brian Wieser
Netflix Inc
Rupert Murdoch's Twenty-First Century Fox Inc. has held talks to sell most of its film and television assets to Walt Disney Co., which would gain new programming and expand its international reach, CNBC reported Monday.
Fox's shares jumped 9.9 percent to close at $27.45 on Nasdaq, and Disney shares climbed 2 percent to $100.64 on the New York Stock Exchange.
Representatives of Disney and Fox had no comment.
Disney, which under U.S. rules could not own two broadcast networks, would not purchase all of Fox, CNBC reported. It would not seek to buy Fox's sports programming assets for fear of running foul of antitrust laws with its own ESPN network, and also would not buy Fox News or Fox's broadcast network or local broadcasting affiliates, the report said.
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4/9/2014, 5:12pm
EMU baseball goes winless in its 5-game trip
By Drew Dood
Andrew Mascharka and Andrew Mascharka | Eastern Echo
Eastern Michigan pitching coach Eric Peterson chats with Paul Schaak in the Eagles 5-3 loss to the Michigan State Spartans Tuesday night.
The Eastern Michigan University baseball team wrapped up its five-game road trip with a loss against Ohio State University (19-13) by the score of 8-1, on Tuesday that left EMU winless for the trip.
The Eagles (10-19 overall, 1-8 Mid-American Conference) started the week on Wednesday with a loss to the University of Dayton (10-16) that was called off due to darkness after the seventh inning. EMU mounted a series rally, scoring all six of their runs in the last two innings, before falling 7-6.
John Rubino excelled for the Eagles, scoring twice and picking up two runs batted in. Sam Ott also contributed two hits and two runs batted in as well.
Tyler Russell (0-1), EMU’s starting pitcher for the game, took the loss in just under three innings work.
The week didn’t get better as Eastern played two games on Saturday against MAC opponent Ball State University (22-10), losing both games 20-5 and 7-3.
The Eagles had a solid hitting night in the first game, racking up 11 hits, but only scored five runs and the pitching couldn’t stop Ball State.
“We get behind (in the count) every hitter,” EMU coach Jay Alexander said. “When you get behind hitters, you give yourself no chance to have any success against great hitters.”
Ryan Lavoie (1-2) started the game for EMU and allowed nine runs off of nine hits and came out before the end of the second inning.
Relief pitcher Kristian Calibuso didn’t fare much better. He allowed nine runs, six hits and seven strikeouts in just over three innings.
Austin Wilson was the leadoff batter this time around and he struggled, striking out twice and getting just one hit with four at bats. He did have one RBI as well.
Rubino had another strong game for the Eagles going three-for-four.
The final score for the second game was much closer, but EMU was down 7-0 in the fifth inning, after a grand slam by Ball State right fielder Godfrey, before scoring one run in every inning, save the ninth, the rest of the way.
Each team got 10 hits in the game, but Eastern was unable to capitalize and had three errors to Ball State’s zero.
Pitcher Michael Marsinek (2-1) took his first loss of the season with his three innings work. Marsinek allowed four runs off of five hits, but only one run was earned.
Paul Schaak did good relief work after taking over in the fifth inning with one out. Schaak only allowed three hits and struck out six batters.
The series concluded Sunday afternoon with another Ball State victory 6-5 despite getting outhit by EMU 13-9.
Starting pitcher for the Eagles Jake Andrews pitched five excellent innings, allowing only two hits and three runs. He also struck out three batters.
EMU was held scoreless through the first six innings and faced a 5-0 deficit after relief pitcher Charlie Land (0-5) allowed three runs in the bottom of the sixth.
The Eagles scored five in the next two innings to tie the game at five apiece. Ott (3-4) picked up one run and three RBIs in the stretch to help EMU come back. Longo (2-5) also played decent getting one RBI.
The game was tied going into the ninth, but Godfrey struck again with the go-ahead double allowing Spaulding to score and to give EMU the loss.
The Eagles only mustered a run and three hits. Ott (2-4) accounted for two of those hits and scored the only run for Eastern.
Alexander praised OSU pitcher Farmer (5-3) for his performance and how he was able to control the Eagles’ hitting.
“He just got ahead of hitters,” Alexander said. “You get ahead of hitters and you put yourself in a better opportunity to get a hitter out and he did that very consistently.”
Tyler Russell, EMU’s relief pitcher, put in some good work for the Eagles, pitching four innings and only allowing five hits while striking out four.
“He dominated the strike zone and that’s what he’s really good at,” Alexander said.
EMU starting pitcher Sam Delaplane (0-1) pitched for three innings, giving up six hits and five runs, while walking three batters with only one strikeout.
Eastern follows this series up with a four-game home stand beginning with Siena Heights on Thursday. After that, they play a three game series against Northern Illinois University over the weekend that Alexander says is a must win weekend.
“We just got to find our groove,” Alexander said. “If we can do that, I like our chances. I still like my club and we just got to get it going.”
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European Heritage Days 2018: Call for European Heritage Stories and launch of the European Heritage Makers Week
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The European Heritage Days (EHDs), a joint initiative of the Council of Europe and the European Commission, are the most widely celebrated participatory cultural events shared by the citizens of Europe. The pan-European nature of the events contributes to bringing citizens together and highlighting the European dimension and the value of cultural heritage in the 50 signatory States of the European Cultural Convention. Over 70 000 events are organised every year in order to help raise awareness of Europe's common heritage and the continuous need for its protection, as well as to create shared cultural heritage experiences, promote inclusiveness and foster creativity and imagination.
As one of the key initiatives of the European Year of Cultural Heritage, in this year’s edition of the #EHDs we are celebrating “The Art of Sharing” and launching two new pilot initiatives open to local communities, children and young people.
Launched on 18 April on the occasion of the World Heritage Day and International Day for Monuments and Sites, the EHDs are proud to present the European Heritage Makers Week, a storytelling experience created to celebrate Europe’s shared heritage. The official week symbolically takes place between 5 and 9 May, to coincide with the Europe Day celebrated by the Council of Europe and European Union. The preparation and selection days will follow the schedule outlined here.
During this period, children and young people are encouraged to explore their surroundings, get to know the cultural heritage around them and come up with a story of Europe in the selected site. The stories can then be uploaded by their parents or legal guardians in the form of digital images (pictures, drawings, paintings, photographs, graphics, illustrations, and comics) to the EHD Portal with written stories alongside to give added insight. Following a national pre-selection, a European jury will select the ten most inspiring stories and invite the #HeritageMakers to visit Strasbourg for a special event in November.
For the first time in the history of the European Heritage Days, the Call for European Heritage Stories is set as a pilot initiative intending to give a voice to the passionate individuals, organisations and associations to tell their story of Europe in the heritage they cherish.
Storytellers from EHD communities, EU Prize for Cultural Heritage/Europa Nostra Award winners and the European Heritage Label are invited to share their interpretation of a European heritage story and to explore the ways they understand their heritage site or heritage work corresponds with common European values. In addition to encouraging people to engage with Europe’s cultural heritage and collecting testimonies/stories and good practice on how communities understand the European dimension of local heritage, the Call will give access to direct funding scheme for project proposals connected with the Stories.
Officially launched on 20 April 2018, the storytellers can submit their stories through the Application Form available on the European Heritage Stories page. Each community can submit up to three stories per Call and up to one project proposal to be eligible for the grant procedure (maximum €10 000) connected with one of the submitted stories. A European panel will chose a minimum of 10 European Heritage Stories for a grant to further develop their initiatives. Detailed information can be found in Call for European Heritage Stories: Terms and Conditions.
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Celebrated in 50 signatory States to the European Cultural Convention, European Heritage Days highlight the diversity of local skills, traditions, architectural styles and works of art that constitute shared European Heritage. Launched in 1985 in France, the festival has been organised as a joint initiative of the European Union and the Council of Europe since 1999. Enabling citizens to explore a wide range of cultural assets through a number of themed events organised for free, European Heritage Days help uncover hidden histories of people and places that have helped shape the culture and heritage of Europe.
The events take place from late August to October, when local skills, crafts and traditions are put into focus at cultural events all over Europe. The aim is to increase understanding of a shared European past, encourage appreciation of traditional values and inspire new heritage conservation and education initiatives. Cultural heritage is a priority under Creative Europe, the EU's programme for the cultural and creative sectors. The European Heritage Days receive €400 000 in support from Creative Europe and €400 000 from the Council of Europe, with most events being funded with national or regional backing. Pilot initiatives launched in 2018 and announced in this press release will set the stage for engaging communities in the European dimension of heritage, as well as focus on storytelling and European values.
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US congressional caucus discuses accountability and reconciliation
A congressional caucus event on the Path Forward for Accountability, Peace and Reconciliation in Sri Lanka, was held by the Senate Human Rights Caucus on 15 September 2015.
Panellists discussed issues relating to the need to demilitarise the North-East of Sri Lanka, further trust building initiatives between the victim community and the need for genuine accountability to deal with mass atrocities in Sri Lanka.
The director of the No Fire Zone documentary, Callum Macrae, stressed that victims had no confidence in a domestic process and warned that “what Sri Lanka says to the rest of the world is very different to what it enacts on the island.”
Addressing questions on Sri Lanka’s suggestion that it would adopt a South Africa style Truth and Reconciliation model, Mr Macrae said,
“There is a big difference between South Africa and Sri Lanka. South Africa started a TRC after an end of apartheid. In Sri Lanka there are still oppressive conditions.”
A senior member of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, commented on Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Mangalaa Samaraweera’s statement to the UN, and noted that his admission of a history of past failures further strengthened the argument for a strong international component in any justice process.
The Director of Religion and Inclusive Societies Susan Hayward, highlighted ongoing reports of torture by security forces, whilst condemning the intense militarisation of the North-East.
Another panellist Susan Hayward, the director of Religion and Inclusive Societies, said that in South Africa a lot of white Christian leaders spoke of how their religious identity and theology had driven violence. Such an admission by Sri Lankan religious leaders could also be helpful.
The event was co-chaired by Senator Mark Kirk and Senator Chris Coons.
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BERNARD HOPKINS CAMP NOTES
Isaac Barrio / March 25, 2010
Hopkins Ready for Jones as Miami Training Camp Winds Down
After Tuesday’s Open Media Workout
Hopkins At Home In Miami
Bernard “The Executioner” Hopkins opted for sunny weather and sandy beaches when deciding where to train for his long-awaited rematch against Roy Jones Jr. which is set to take place Saturday, April 3 at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas live on pay-per-view. Hopkins decided the warm weather would make for better training conditions and bring back memories of preparing for past fights as Miami has been home to Team Hopkins for over 10 bouts since 2001.
“I feel at home in Miami and it has been great to be back,” said Hopkins. “Every fight I am motivated by something different. This time around it’s all about healing the 17-year-old wound that has been with me since I lost to Roy in ’93. A win on April 3 will finally close this particular chapter of my career.”
Richardson Training For Two
Team Hopkins is a well oiled machine. His long-standing team members are with him in Miami, including Naazim Richardson, John David Jackson, Sharif Parker, Linwood Wilson and masseuse Tony Kolev. For this camp Richardson found himself in a predicament as he is also trainer for Shane Mosley, who is preparing in Big Bear, Calif. for his welterweight bout May 1 against Floyd Mayweather. Richardson remained in Miami with Hopkins until last weekend when he left to join Mosley in Big Bear before rejoining Hopkins in Las Vegas on Monday of fight week. The esteemed trainer feels comfortable and confident that the veteran Hopkins is ready for the fight.
“Bernard is in the zone,” said Richardson. “This has been a great camp. Bernard has taken care of his body all of these years and it shows. He is preparing for the best Roy Jones Jr. and we know that Jones is preparing for the best Bernard.”
Early to His Own Bed, Ready to Rise Well Rested
With his purchase of a two-bedroom condo on the beach in Miami, Hopkins gets the additional benefits of staying at his home away from home while training. Hopkins’ longtime training axioms of courage, determination and rest (particularly in his own bed) are working well for him. The two-division World Champion goes to bed at 9:00 p.m. and rises early for his long-standing practice of doing roadwork while running on the beach. No longer a fan of pre-dawn runs, where darkness used to be a solitary friend, Hopkins can now be found running on the beach at 7:00 a.m., followed by a couple hours of rest until he heads to the gym for an afternoon of training, sparring three days a week with a group of well accomplished fighters who give him all they can.
“I always make sure I get a lot of rest and wake up every morning with the courage and determination to keep going particularly for this fight which is extremely personal for me,” Hopkins said. “Roy thinks he is going to be able to repeat what he did [in their first fight], but I know this hard work is going to pay off in the ring on April 3.”
“The Rivals: Hopkins vs. Jones II,” set for Saturday, April 3 at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nev., is promoted by Golden Boy Promotions and Square Ring Promotions and sponsored by Cerveza Tecate, AT&T and Southwest Airlines. The event will be broadcast live on pay-per-view beginning at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT.
Tickets priced at $750, $500, $300, $200 and $100 are on sale now at all Las Vegas Ticketmaster locations (select Smith’s Food and Drug Centers and Ritmo Latino). Ticket sales are limited to eight (8) per person. To charge by phone with a major credit card, call Ticketmaster at (800) 745-3000. Tickets also will be available for purchase at www.mandalaybay.com or www.ticketmaster.com.
The Hopkins vs. Jones II pay-per-view telecast begins at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT and has a suggested retail price of $49.95. The telecast will be available in HD-TV for those viewers who can receive HD. The main event will begin live immediately following the college basketball semi-finals. For Hopkins vs. Jones II fight week updates, log on to www.goldenboypromotions.com.
March 25, 2010 in Boxing News. Tags: BERNARD HOPKINS CAMP NOTES. BERNARD HOPKINS, Boxing, Golden Boy Promotions
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Federal Trade Commission may open up the wireless chipset market even prior to Qualcomm trial: motion for partial summary judgment
Four months prior to the FTC v. Qualcomm antitrust bench trial in the Northern District of California, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission has brought a motion for partial summary judgment that has the potential to make a far greater contribution to fair competition in the wireless baseband chipset market than the procedural context (a pretrial motion) suggests. The FTC is asking Judge Lucy Koh to hold that, under certain (F)RAND licensing obligations it entered into when it participated in wireless standard-setting, Qualcomm must license its CDMA, UMTS and 4G/LTE standard-essential patents (SEPs) to rival chipset makers (such as Intel).
This is an unusual situation in which a summary judgment motion is legally extremely simple, yet has the potential for truly transformative impact on the marketplace. In most situations where a party is seeking a game changer, reasonably tricky question of law and/or fact are involved. Here, the FTC is just seeking clarification that Qualcomm's FRAND licensing commitments say what they say. But if Judge Koh agreed with the FTC and reminded Qualcomm of its obligations,
Intel (and likely others, such as MediaTek and Samsung's Exynos division) would immediately ask for a license to Qualcomm's wireless standard-essential patents on FRAND terms,
Qualcomm would have to content itself with royalties representing a FRAND percentage of baseband chipset prices (as opposed to a percentage of the price of an entire mobile device),
Qualcomm's leverage would be reduced because (as the FTC notes) Qualcomm couldn't threaten with a chipset supply disruption while negotiating with competitors,
due to patent exhaustion, Qualcomm wouldn't be able to "double-dip" by collecting license fees from its licensees' customers (the device makers), and
those who would still buy Qualcomm's baseband processors could decline to pay royalties in excess of what baseband chipset makers are required to pay (anything else would be discriminatory).
A number of problems would be solved, and prices would come down. Consumers would benefit. Competitors would benefit. Device makers (especially in the premium segment) would benefit. But Qualcomm would have to get used to doing business on FRAND terms, at long last. It could still make a ton of money, but obviously less than before.
Hypothetically speaking, if the FTC achieved the above with its motion for partial summary judgment (which I believe it will), but subsequently failed to make further headway at the January 2019 bench trial (which is not a prediction), it would have accomplished a great deal. In that hypothetical scenario, it would actually have achieved far more than with the average consent decree. The trial might not even take place: after such a strategic breakthrough for the FTC, Qualcomm would be under significant pressure to settle.
After assessing the potential impact of this motion, let's take a look at the basis on which the FTC is trying to make such tremendous headway (this post continues below the document):
18-08-30 FTC Motion for Partial Summary Judgment Against Qualcomm by Florian Mueller on Scribd
In a legal sense, the motion is as narrowly tailored as it could be. The FTC's broader case against Qualcomm's policies, including the "no-license-no-chips" approach, targets a host of issues and their anticompetitive effects. The above motion for partial summary judgment, however, does not even raise a single antitrust issue in a strict sense: it's exclusive about Qualcomm's contractual obligations to license rival chipset makers. And it's not about the entirety of Qualcomm's contractual licensing commitments: it's just about Qualcomm's obligations and third-party beneficiaries' rights emanating from Qualcomm's FRAND licensing promises to two U.S. standard-setting organizations, the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) and the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS).
In other wireless SEP cases, the commitments that patent holders made to the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) are front and center. Here, the FTC is trying to eliminate the need to make a determination in San Jose under French law. Qualcomm presented expert reports according to which it allegedly, under French law, doesn't have to extend SEP licenses to other wireless chipset makers. The FTC completely disagrees, but if Qualcomm's commitments to U.S. standards bodies cover the standards at issue in the case (CDMA, UMTS, 4G/LTE), Judge Koh won't even have to dig into a foreign country's law under Rule 44.1.
A duty to deal, under antitrust law, would also require Qualcomm to extend SEP licenses to rival chipset makers. Here, too, the FTC believes it has a stronge case: but the motion for partial summary judgment does not involve an antitrust-based duty to deal; at this point, it's just about Qualcomm's existing contractual obligations. By contrast, it involves a lot more on a court's part to determine that a duty to deal exists on antitrust grounds.
Technically, if Qualcomm has an obligation on one legal basis (its commitments to TIA and ATIS), and if the court confirms that this is the case, that's all it takes for good things (more competition in the baseband chip set market) to happen. The FTC's motion has the potential to streamline and simplify a very critical part of the case. As the motion explains, Qualcomm's commitments to TIA and ATIS can be interpreted under California contract law (which is particularly clear here, given Qualcomm's legal domicile in San Diego). That's much easier for Judge Koh than to form an opinion based on expert reports on what a certain term may or may not mean in French in light of a wealth of contract law rulings made by courts in that country over the last decades. Why do so if there are U.S. standard-setting organizations that adopted the standards in questions (no matter how important ETSI was in the creation of certain standards)?
Qualcomm's commitment to both TIA and ATIS undoubtedly require it to license all comers. The official guidelines to TIA's IPR policy even explicitly state that "[a]n example of conduct that would constitute discrimination is a willingness to license all applicants except for competitors of the licensor" (which is obvious, but it helps that the obvious has been stated this unambiguously).
The name of the game is contract interpretation. The motion per se doesn't even require the court to find Qualcomm in breach of those commitments (which would involve factual questions relating to Qualcomm's interactions with the likes of Intel).
Long passages of the motion have been redacted out, which is why the context of the following isn't clear, but it's interesting nonetheless: in 2014, Judge Koh herself held in GPNE Corp. v. Apple "as a matter of law that in [that] case, the baseband processor [was] the proper smallest salable patent-practicing unit." It will be hard for Qualcomm to distinguish the FTC's case from that one should the royalty base have to be determined in the further proceedings (certainly not necessary for deciding this motion).
The FTC has made a smart tactical choice by requesting a ruling on this pivotal question. Things aren't looking good for Qualcomm anyway (also considering what Judge Koh stated in her dismissal without prejudice of a motion brought by consumers), but if the FTC prevails on this motion (which I believe it very probably will; at a mimimum, it would score this strategic victory at trial), Qualcomm will have to admit that the noose is tightening around the most problematic aspects of its business model.
Labels: Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions, Antitrust, ETSI, FRAND, FTC, Intel, Licensing, Qualcomm, Standard-Essential Patents, Summary Judgment, Telecommunications Industry Association
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4-acre memorial to honor 26 victims of 1970 tornado
By Cassie Carlson
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May 11, 2019 is the 49th anniversary of the Lubbock tornado that killed 26 people.
2020 marks a half-century since the storm caused more than $200M in damage, in 1970 figures.
Lubbock National Bank made a $1 million donation to the Tornado Memorial Gateway project. It will honor the victims and those who worked to rebuild the city.
"We gathered in the hall, right inside the bathroom door as soon as we did, windows popped, walls caved in over us," Irasema Velasquez remembered.
Velasquez's was one of the more than a thousand homes destroyed by the tornado. Though her family had to rebuild their lives, it was nothing compared the families of the 26 victims. However, she described everyone who was in Lubbock at the time, as a survivor.
"We remember the city, we remember Corporate America that went over and beyond and you know what we're survivors. We're survivors to be able to appreciate what's happening her," she added.
The memorial will act as a gateway to downtown. According to plans, it'll be on the corner of Avenue Q and Glenna Goodacre. The lot was where most of the damage occurred, in 1970.
"I think it's going to be one of those places that visitors and people that live here are going to come and just be amazed at how breathtaking this is," Chairman of the project, Dan Williams added.
The four-acre lot will have granite walls with a map of the city to mimic the storm's eight and a half mile path. It'll also include waterfalls and a green space.
According to Robert Taylor with the United Family, the idea for the project happened with he was talking to the McDougals about entryway to the city.
"Wouldn't it be nice if we could have something that was really iconic that would introduce downtown not only to their citizens, but to the visitors it would have," Taylor said.
The memorial plans to honor the 26 victims, along with the people who helped rebuild the city.
According to Mayor Dan Pope, it will continue the legacy to a lively downtown.
"It's important to our future as we create an environment where companies want to continue to invest and hire our people. And where other companies want to come and invest. A downtown is important to that," the mayor said.
The construction is expected to begin in the summer, with hopes the project will be competed by May 11, 2020, the 50th anniversary.
To donate to the project, visit www.downtownlbk.us/tornado-memorial or email tornadomemorialgtwy@gmail.com
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CyberFair Project ID: 5940
NOTE: Due to URL changes, some links may no longer be valid.
Title: LANDO - Leadership in Action Nurturing Developemnt and Oneness
Category: 1. Local Leaders
URL: http://znnhsglerds.netau.net/
Bibliography: http://znnhsglerds.netau.net/lando/biblio.htm
School: DepEd - Zamboanga del Norte National High School
Dipolog City, Zamboanga Del Norte, Philippines
6 students, ages 13 - 14 worked together to complete this CyberFair project on March 24, 2009. They have participated in CyberFair in the following year(s): 2005, 2008
Classes and Teachers: Zyhrine P. Mayormita, Joel P. Ogoc, and Erwin J. Etoc
E-Mail contact:
Our School's Web Site: http://www.znnhsdipolog.cjb.net/
1. Description of Our Community
Zamboanga del Norte is a province of the Philippines located in the Zamboanga Peninsula region in Mindanao. Dubbed as the “Twin-City Province,” the province has been made famous by the beauty and charm of the Orchid City of Dipolog and the historical, rustic charm of the Shrine City of Dapitan.
Its capital is Dipolog City and the province borders Zamboanga del Sur and Zamboanga Sibugay to the south and Misamis Occidental to the east. The Sulu Sea lies to the northwest of Zamboanga del Norte. It is the largest province of Zamboanga Peninsula in terms of land area.
The province occupies a total land area of 6,618 square kilometers. It has an average elevation of 243.8 meters, with Mt. Dabiak in Katipunan as the highest peak at 2,600 meters. Other parts, near the coastlines, are plains. The province’s irregular coastline runs 400 kilometers from north to south. About half of the province's land area is devoted to agriculture. Corn, coconut, and rice are major crops. The province being rich in marine and mineral sources, its fish production has accelerated through the development of fishponds. Commercial fishing has likewise steadily increased through the years, with the yellow fin tuna as the primary species. Zamboanga del Norte has a population of 823,130 according to the 2000 census. Its population density is 124/km². It is ranked 27th among the provinces both in terms of population and population density. The main dialect spoken is Cebuano. Zamboangueño/Chavacano, English and Tagalog are also spoken, indicative of a high level of literacy. The original and native Subanon dialect lives on, especially in the highlands. The province is subdivided into 25 municipalities and 2 cities. These are further subdivided into 691 barangays, and clustered into 3 congressional districts.
2. Summary of Our Project
This project intends to foster among the youth a greater sense of awareness and consequently encourage their active participation in responsible leadership that sustains a global and democratic society. The project aims to instill among the youth the need to become the agents of social change that will not only impact the community in the present, but also changes their attitudes and behaviors for the future as youth see themselves, and their peers, as leaders. Governor Rolando E. Yebes whom many Zanorteans fondly call Lando is absolutely a strong icon of leadership in the province of Zamboanga del Norte. The project which showcases the many facets of his dynamic leadership as governor will hopefully encourage the youth to become leaders themselves. The project shows that: Leadership is a process of getting things done through people. It is best learned by working with people. There are no strict rules for leadership. But there are certain skills that every good leader seems to have. Leadership means responsibility. A good leader learns how to get the job done and still keep the group together.
3. Our Computer and Internet Access
A. Percentage of students using the Internet at home:21-50%
B. Number of workstations with Internet access in the classroom:more than 6
C. Connection speed used in the classroom:dedicated connection
D. Number of years our classroom has been connected to the Internet:2-3
E. Additional comments concerning your computer and/or Internet access (Optional):
On Campus: Internet access (DSL) allows ease for data searching, communication and printing.
At Home: Team members have access to the Internet at home. Yahoo messenger is the usual mode of communication.
4. Problems We Had To Overcome
On Webpage-making Techniques: Only the basic elements of webpage-making and designing are covered in the school curriculum. Basically the students have acquired webpage-making skills on their own through Internet tutorials, from books, from interview with those who studied about webpage development in college and mostly through trial-and-error experiences of trying to develop their own WebPages.
Schedule Arrangement: The school implements the “no disruption of classes” policy and so it was totally difficult for the team to meet regularly. Information Collection: Months before the 2009 Cyberfair was opened for registration, the team had already decided to submit an entry under the Local Leaders Category and that the project will focus on the exemplary leadership of the provincial governor. The team was so confident that it will be able to secure permission from the governor that even before the consent was given, it has already started conducting research on the governor’s personal profile, program of government, plans and activities and projects as well as the achievements and recognition accorded him. Data collection is basically by way of Internet research, interview of the governor’s executive assistant, and that of the local Philippine Information Agency (PIA) files.
Schedule Management: Although the team conceptualized the project idea long before the opening of the 2009 Cyberfair, it failed to progress at a pace that would have let them finish the entire project early. But with the team’s determination and the encouragement of the adviser the members were able to accomplish their assigned tasks.
Transportation: The team members live in separate barangays (communities) in the city. One member lives outside of the city and has to travel more than an hour from school to reach his place. Transportation was never considered a hindrance in completing the project. The team is fortunate that the provincial capitol is accessible.
5. Our Project Sound Bite
This project is anchored on the belief that the very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. This is exactly what the team envisions to develop and inculcate among the younger generation who are considered the future leaders of our community. We hope to inspire the youth to take active roles in nation-building and to effect in their consciousness the responsibility that comes with becoming a leader. The team believes in the following: Leadership can be thought of as a capacity to define oneself to others in a way that clarifies and expands a vision of the future. – Edwin H. Friedman If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. – John Quincy Adams
6. How did your activities and research for this CyberFair Project support standards, required coursework and curriculum standards?
1. Development of a sense of social awareness and social responsibility. The project helps us to realize and understand some facets of leadership. That in choosing and becoming leaders we have to be aware first of the responsibilities and the challenges ahead. The youth needs to develop that consciousness that the future may be defined by the kind of leaders they have and the kind of leaders that they will be. 2. The use of appropriate technology and the Internet in research works. The team acknowledges the fact that research skills coupled with computer technology and Internet when appropriately used can be an effective approach to provide the public a sense of awareness and knowledge about people virtually everything one can imagine. In this project the use of these resources allows the team to inform the public about the leadership of the provincial governor.
3. Collaboration and Team Work. The project enables the team members to value the importance of collaboration and unity. Having a common goal and fulfilling one’s responsibility in the realization of that goal is indeed very important. Fulfilling the task assigned to you is but a determining element for the collective success of the group.
4. E-learning. This is a very important approach to learning. Learning using the Internet not only allows access to many important resources but it is also fast and convenient. E-learning adjunct to the traditional learning modalities or vice versa facilitates learning the fun and entertaining way.
1) What information tools & technologies did you used to complete your CyberFair project?
Equipment: Desktop and lap top computers for creating the web pages and in saving information. Digital Camera for pictorial and recording of interview. Printer for printing researched materials. Cellular phones as means of communication.
Software: Adobe Dreamweaver, Photoshop CS3, Microsoft Publisher, 3Ds MAX, Microsoft Office 2007, Notepad, Mozilla Firefox, Yahoo messenger (for communication purposes)
2) In what ways did you act as "ambassadors" and spokespersons for your CyberFair project both on-line and in person.
Having been given the permission by the governor himself to conduct a research and develop a website about him - the highest official in the province, is something which the team is very proud of. Not all students of our age will have that privilege. The team believes that they become ambassador both on-line and in person because the research works they did on this Cyber fair project will forever mark something in the history of our school and in the province. The materials that the project provides will always be part of the bulk of knowledge our province has. People will know who the governor is, his political career, and his administration of the province, his leadership styles and much other information.
3) What has been the impact of your project on your community?
The people of Zanorte will learn many things about how the provincial government is managed by the governor. The website showcases the goings-on of the province through the activities initiated by the office of the governor. Hopefully the public is encouraged to become active members of the community and not just passive elements of the society. People will acquire understand of their roles in the development of the province and will make decisive moves as to how and where should they get involved. The team provides a positive impression on local residents, teachers and students as to how the team managed to collect such information about the governor and how the team managed to present his leadership in the province.
4) How did your project involve other members of your community as helpers and volunteers?
The making of this project allowed us to work closely with the staff of the governor – his executive assistant who generously provided us materials necessary for our research works. The executive assistant and other members of the office of the provincial governor helped us collect data that we need especially the facts and figures required and the soft copies of the pictures to support the various information covered in the project. We also worked with other agencies like the local Philippine Information Agency (PIA) office for the research works, the Civil Service Commission (CSC) for the records compiled about the program and projects and achievements of the governor, the local tourism office. Interviews were conducted with local residents and those public officials in the province. Assistance was also sought from the school IT experts to help us out in the appropriate use of computer technology. We appreciate the efforts and support of all individuals who assisted us in the making of this project.
5) Discoveries, Lessons and Surprises (Optional)
Our research offers a lot of surprises not only for us but for many people of Zamboanga del Norte especially the youth. Many of the youth are just passive members of the society. They do not really care about government, about how the elected leaders are running the province. To that effect, many are not aware of the programs, projects, activities of the province. The project fills that void so that everyone will be provided the necessary awareness and knowledge about what is happening in the province through the leadership of the governor.
View our CyberFair Project (Project ID: 5940)
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Home News MORE THAN 400 HOLOCAUST, GENOCIDE EXPERTS THINK OCASIO-CORTEZ SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO CALL MIGRANT DETENTION CENTERS 'CONCENTRATION CAMPS'
MORE THAN 400 HOLOCAUST, GENOCIDE EXPERTS THINK OCASIO-CORTEZ SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO CALL MIGRANT DETENTION CENTERS 'CONCENTRATION CAMPS'
More than 430 scholars who research the Holocaust and genocides have now signed an open letter to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum voicing their concern after the organization condemned the use of Holocaust analogies – such as the term "concentration camps" – when talking about any other event.
Anika Walke, an associate professor of History and International and Area Studies, at Washington University in St. Louis and Andrea Orzoff, an associate professor of History and Honors at New Mexico State University were the original drafters of the letter.
Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York drew significant criticism, as well as support, last month after she said that the detention centers used by the administration of President Donald Trump to house undocumented migrants are "concentration camps." Right wing critics and some Jewish groups came out strongly against the term, arguing that the congresswoman was politicizing Holocaust imagery and mischaracterizing the situation.
But many others disagreed, rallying behind Ocasio-Cortez's use of the term. Now, more than 140 historians who specialize in researching the Holocaust and other genocides have criticized the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum for opposing Ocasio-Cortez's characterization of the detention centers.
"We are deeply concerned about the Museum's recent 'Statement Regarding the Museum's Position on Holocaust Analogies.' We write this public letter to urge its retraction," the scholars wrote in an open letter published by the New York Review of Books and dated July 1.
"By 'unequivocally rejecting efforts to create analogies between the Holocaust and other events, whether historical or contemporary,' the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is taking a radical position that is far removed from mainstream scholarship on the Holocaust and genocide," the letter continued. "And it makes learning from the past almost impossible."
The scholars argued that the museum's "decision to completely reject drawing any possible analogies to the Holocaust, or to the events leading up to it, is fundamentally ahistorical."
"The very core of Holocaust education is to alert the public to dangerous developments that facilitate human rights violations and pain and suffering; pointing to similarities across time and space is essential for this task," they wrote.
Many of the scholars who signed the letter are strong supporters of the Holocaust Memorial, pointing out in the letter that they have used its library and other resources in their teaching and research. They hail from prestigious institutions of higher education from across the U.S. and around the world.
"Proud to be a signatory. This is a hugely powerful statement. The list of signatories contains a literal 'Who's who?' of Holocaust and Genocide Studies," Dr. Waitman Wade Beorn, a lecturer at the Corcoran Department Of History at the University of Virginia wrote on Twitter, sharing the open letter. "While there are certainly scholars who disagree, this statement makes the analogy a widely-held view."
On June 24, the museum released the following statement on its website: "The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum unequivocally rejects efforts to create analogies between the Holocaust and other events, whether historical or contemporary. That position has repeatedly and unambiguously been made clear in the Museum's official statement on the matter – a statement that is reiterated and reaffirmed now."
That statement came just a few days after Ocasio-Cortez said in an Instagram live video that "The United States is running concentration camps on our southern border and that is exactly what they are." Continuing, the congresswoman said: "I want to talk to the people that are concerned enough with humanity to say that 'never again' means something," she added. "The fact that concentration camps are now an institutionalized practice in the 'Home of the Free' is extraordinarily disturbing and we need to do something about it."
Since Ocasio-Cortez made the comments, several reports have come out shedding light on the subpar conditions migrants are forced to endure in the facilities. In some instances, detention centers for migrant children were not providing adequate food, proper beds, medicine and hygiene products.
Dolly Lucio Sevier, a physician who toured several facilities, told ABC News that what she saw "felt worse than jail."
"The conditions within which they are held could be compared to torture facilities," the doctor wrote in a medical declaration.
MORE THAN 400 HOLOCAUST, GENOCIDE EXPERTS THINK OCASIO-CORTEZ SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO CALL MIGRANT DETENTION CENTERS 'CONCENTRATION CAMPS' Reviewed by Facts on July 09, 2019 Rating: 5
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Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu 15
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Little League World Series Baseball 2008
Release Date: August 5, 2008 (North America)
Release Date: June 23, 2009 (North America)
The Bigs
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Supermoon and heavy rain cause flooding at the Botanic Gardens
High tide at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney. Tuesday 5th December 2017 SMH photo Louie Douvis .Monday night’s supermoon was one factor to blame for the flooding of part of the Royal Botanic Gardens on Tuesday morning, a meteorologist said.
A high tide lapped at the top of the waterfront wall along Farm Cove and flooded the walkway around the Botanic Gardens about 10am.
Weatherzone meteorologist Brett Dutschke said the supermoon event was “likely to have been a factor” in the high tide – the highest experienced since midwinter.
“It was forecast to reach a little bit over two metres, we hadn’t had a tide that high since mid-July,” he said.
“The difference back then was that high tide was after a fairly dry spell; there would have been less flooding as a result.”
Mr Dutschke said the last high tide after significant rainfall was in June, but that tide occurred “a couple of weeks” after the rains.
Meteorologist Graeme Brittain said parts of NSW received more than 50mm of rain in the 24 hours to midday on Tuesday.
Narooma and the South Coast received 54 millimetres, while Jervis Bay had 61 millimetres.
Sydney received 10 to 20 millimetres of rainfall, Mr Brittain said.
A spokeswoman from the Royal Botanic Gardens said the pathway near the waterfront floods once or twice a year in high tides, but the gardens remained undamaged.
Mr Dutschke said Tuesday’s tide would be the highest tide for the week. High tide now at Sydney’s Royal Botanic Gardens .. “Never seen it this high” says one gardener. A taste of things to come. pic.twitter南京夜网/h7ICq6h2Qx??? Joe O’Brien (@JoeABCNews) December 4, 2017This story Administrator ready to work first appeared on Nanjing Night Net.
Knights scouting for recruits to bring “community feel”PHOTOS
Knights scouting for recruits to bring “community feel” | PHOTOS STARLETS: The Newcastle Knights cheerleading squad is looking to expand for the 2018 season.
The Knights cheerleaders at McDonald Jones Stadium in the 2017 season.
Auditions for the roles in the squad will be held on Tuesday, December 12 at McDonald Jones Stadium.
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The Newcastle Knights might be making some big-money signings in the form of Mitchell Pearce and a host of other incoming names, but its not the only change the rugby league squad is making for 2018.
The Knights cheerleaders are looking to bring in their own ‘new signings’ as part of their highly-trained dance team, and want talented individuals that are can embrace the “community feeling” that the dance troupe aims for.
Alex Tsambas, who took the helm of the cheerleading squad in 2016, believes that the team is a perfect way to “meet new best friends and get involved in the sporting community in town”.
“The cheerleaders, especially in Newcastle, have become so much more than just the girls that are dancing and providing entertainment at each of the rugby league games,” Tsambas said. “That said, they’re definitely all amazing dancers and pretty awesome at entertaining.”
It’s more about the community feel that the “faces of the game” bring, and Tsambas admitted she loves to bring new and eager dancers into the fold.
“We have gone beyond what a lot of people expect of cheerleaders these days, and speaking to the fans, getting involved in events and being a bridge for the kids and adults at the games is a really fun and rewarding role,” she said.
“It’s disappointing when people suggest that cheerleaders aren’t really needed in the game anymore, because we bring a lot to the excitement. You look down on the field after a try or a goal and the girls are celebrating hardest and creating the atmosphere.
“It’s a special role that we are always honoured to take on. The girls that are at the Knights always say that they might retire at the end of the season, but they miss the roar of the crowd too much to leave I think.”
The roles will also include representing the Newcastle Knights on game days and at a variety of corporate, community and charity events across the season.
“There’s so much below the surface that I feel people miss when they first think of the girls on the side of the field,” Tsambas said. “We are constantly promoting the game, and we all love it so much. A lot of my girls [in the team] play league tag as well –we might need our own cheer squad to fill in if more of them keep playing!”
To be considered for the position within the team, applicants must be over 18 years old, and have a current drivers licence.
They must also be available for all Newcastle Knights home games for 2018, be available for Tuesday training sessions, have the ability to perform routines with 5-6 hours of rehearsal and be committed and flexible for all aspects of the position.
The Newcastle Knights will be holding auditions for the 2018 cheerleading team onTuesday, December 12 atMcDonald Jones Stadium at6pm.
To apply for the audition, [email protected]南京夜网419论坛.
‘At immediate risk’: How bushwalkers could be spreading devastating fungi
Bushwalkers and other travellers heading to Victoria and Tasmania over the summer are advised to take care to avoid spreading a fungus that has already placed dozens of native plant species at “immediate risk”.
So far, the two states have only identified the imported myrtle rust in nurseries but its rapid spread along Australia’s east coast in just a few years underscores the challenges facing biosecurity staff in all states to contain the fungus.
The devastating rust has been blamed for killing about 57 per cent of adult native guava trees, a common shrub along the east coast in just a few years.
Some 380 species among the Myrtaceae??? family of plants, ranging from eucalypts to paperbarks, are considered susceptible to the rust.
“It’s very unusual among rust fungi in that it’s got an extremely wide host range,” said Bob Makinson???, a conservation botanist and vice president of the Australian Network for Plant Conservation, adding most rusts only threaten a couple of species.
“There are about 50 species of immediate concern” in Australia, said Dr Makinson, ahead of a two-day workshop on myrtle rust control attended by government agencies and scientists that began on Tuesday in Canberra.
Along with wild species at risk, the emerging lemon myrtle and aniseed myrtle plantation industries are threatened, as are many plant nurseries, prompting the involvement of state agriculture bodies. Rapid spread
The fungus does best in moist forests and woodlands and has spread widely since its first detection at Wyong, near Gosford in NSW, in 2010. (See map below.)
It is not yet clear how it will fare in the biodiversity-rich south-west of Western Australia. With a few exceptions, such as the Clarence River catchment of northern NSW, the rust has mostly been confined so far to about 40 kilometres of the coast.
The rust attacks new growth, such as leaves, preventing flowering. Seedlings are also particularly vulnerable, creating the potential for a rapid spiral decline of susceptible species.
The fungus is spread by microscopic airborne spores that can also accumulate on hats, tents and other gear used by travellers, such as bushwalkers. Its entry into Australia is unknown.
“It could have been somebody going for a bushwalk in Hawaii and then going for a bushwalk here,” Dr Makinson said of its introduction to Australia.
Myrtle rust spores attacking a paperbark species. Photo: Supplied
Increasing travel and trade are raising the risk from bio-threats for both wildlife and agricultural sectors.
“What we’re seeing is a very marked acceleration of the movement of some of these diseases out of their native areas and into new ones,” he said.
Along with the myrtle rust already found in Australia, there are two other “rather more aggressive” that are affecting eucalyptus plantations in South America but are yet to be detected outside the continent, he said. Control measures
The rust penetrates and infects leaves of susceptible plants. Treatment of diseased plants includes coating them with sticky sprays before their removal to avoid the inadvertent spread of spores into the air.
Standard washing-machine use with detergent will kill the spores on clothing.
Similarly, bush travellers can concoct a mix of 75 per cent methylated spirits and 25 per cent water to spray on tents and other equipment to kill the spores, Dr Makinson said.
He said New Zealand had taken a more proactive response to the arrival of myrtle rust, making more on-ground surveys to identify its spread.
It has started “a massive seed bank”, particularly of plants found to be particularly resistant to the fungus, for future restoration of vulnerable plants, an approach Australia should follow.
“We’re seven years down now and we haven’t got a coordinated response so far,” said Dr Makinson, who was formerly a senior researcher at the Royal Botanic Garden in Sydney for 15 years. Preservation efforts
A spokesman for NSW’s Environment Minister Gabrielle Upton said the state’s government “is commencing a project under its $100 million Saving our Species program to help manage the threat”.
“The Royal Botanic Garden Sydney and Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan are part of a network of Australian botanic gardens raising awareness, providing expertise and establishing conservation programs in response to the threat of myrtle rust,” he said.
A spokesman for the NSW Department of Primary Industries said two species, Rhodamnia rubescens and Rhodomyrtus psidioides, have recently been provisionally listed as critically endangered, “in part as a result of the impact of Myrtle rust”.
“People carrying out activities where there is potential to spread myrtle rust to vulnerable species or plant communities are advised to take precautions to minimise risk,” he said, adding the DPI website had more details about its management.
Other work in NSW includes the Royal Botanic Garden, which has also led workshops in New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and Indonesia to prepare and respond to myrtle rust.
The NSW PlantBank, which has been storing seeds of all the state’s species, is targeting plants threatened by the fungus, an OEH spokeswoman said.
Since many myrtle species have seeds that do not survive traditional seed banking methods, research is developing new techniques such as plant tissue and cryo-preservation.
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40 ILCS 5/17-132
(40 ILCS 5/17-132) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 17-132)
Sec. 17-132. Payments and certification of salary deductions.
(a) An Employer shall cause the Fund to receive all members' payroll records and pension contributions within 30 calendar days after each predesignated payday. For purposes of this Section, the predesignated payday shall be determined in accordance with each Employer's payroll schedule for contributions to the Fund.
(b) An Employer that fails to timely certify and submit payroll records to the Fund is subject to a statutory penalty in the amount of $100 per day for each day that a required certification and submission is late.
Amounts not received by the 30th calendar day after the predesignated payday shall be deemed delinquent and subject to a penalty consisting of interest, which shall accrue on a monthly basis at the Fund's then effective actuarial rate of return, and liquidated damages in the amount of $100 per day, not to exceed 20% of the principal contributions due, which shall be mandatory except for good cause shown and in the discretion of the Board.
An Employer in possession of member contributions deducted from payroll checks is holding Fund assets, and thus becomes a fiduciary over those assets.
(c) The payroll records shall report (1) all pensionable salary earned in that pay period, exclusive of salaries for overtime, special services, or any employment on an optional basis, such as in summer school; (2) adjustments to pensionable salary, exclusive of salaries for overtime, special services, or any employment on an optional basis, such as in summer school, made in a pay period for any prior pay periods; (3) pension contributions attributable to pensionable salary earned in the reported pay period or the adjusted pay period as required by subsection (b) of Section 17-131; and (4) any salary paid by an Employer if that salary is compensation for validated service and is exclusive of salary for overtime, special services, or any employment on an optional basis, such as in summer school. Payroll records required by item (4) of this paragraph shall identify the number of days of service rendered by the member and whether each day of service represents a partial or whole day of service.
(d) The appropriate officers of the Employer shall certify and submit the payroll records no later than 30 calendar days after each predesignated payday. The certification shall constitute a confirmation of the accuracy of such deductions according to the provisions of this Article.
Each Charter School shall designate an administrator as a "Pension Officer". The Pension Officer shall be responsible for certifying all payroll information, including contributions due and certified sick days payable pursuant to Section 17-134, and assuring resolution of reported payroll and contribution deficiencies.
(e) The Board has the authority to conduct payroll audits of a charter school to determine the existence of any delinquencies in contributions to the Fund, and such charter school shall be required to provide such books and records and contribution information as the Board or its authorized representative may require. The Board is also authorized to collect delinquent contributions from charter schools and develop procedures for the collection of such delinquencies. Collection procedures may include legal proceedings in the courts of the State of Illinois. Expenses, including reasonable attorneys' fees, incurred in the collection of delinquent contributions may be assessed by the Board against the charter school.
(Source: P.A. 98-427, eff. 8-16-13; 99-176, eff. 7-29-15.)
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Javed Akhtar is a renowned poet and lyricist in the Indian film industry. Know more about his life in this brief biography.
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One name that is synonymous with romance, aesthetics and Urdu poetry in contemporary India is that of Javed Akhtar. This famous lyricist and songwriter was born on January 17th 1945 in Gwalior. The life history of Javed Akhtar is a roller coaster ride and the number of honors to his name is an endless list that is still growing. This multi talented personality is a renowned poet and lyricist in the Indian film industry. Javed Akhtar is the son of a famous Urdu poet Jaan Nisar Akhtar and Safia Akhtar who was a writer and a teacher. His past generation has a lineage of prominent poets and writers and Javed skillfully takes the tradition forward. To know more about Akhtar, continue to read this insightful biography on him.
His grandfather is looked upon as the milestone in Urdu poetry and is the famous Muzter Khairabadi. Another famous Urdu poet, Majaz, was his mother's brother. Javed Akhtar's generation undoubtedly has an impressive lineage of poets and writers. His parents were also professors at the Hamidia College in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. As a young lad, Javed went to Cambridge School, Bhopal. He graduated from Safiya College, Bhopal in 1964. In his yesteryears, Javed was a radical kid, which is what created a distance between him and his father.
After spending some difficult time in Bhopal for some years, he arrived in Bombay (Mumbai). Popularly known as the city of dreams, every artist definitely tries his luck once in the famous Indian film industry. He got his first major break in the year 1969 in the movie Seeta aur Geeta. It was on this set that he met Honey Irani and later married her. They had two children, Farhan and Zoya. Farhan Akhtar is a leading producer in the Indian film industry today, whereas Zoya Akhtar is excelling as a director in the film industry. He divorced Honey Irani and married Shabana Azmi, the daughter of another famous poet, Kaifi Azmi.
Major Work
As A Script Writer & Lyricist: Javed Akhtar excelles as not just a poet but also as a scriptwriter and a song lyricist. He got fame when he collaborated with the famous scriptwriter Salim Khan and they both penned down some unforgettable hits as the duo of Salim-Javed. Both of them delivered some beautiful hits like Zanjeer, Deewar, Haathi Mere Saathi, Don, etc. The first published poetry collection of Javed Akhtar was called Tarkash and came out in the year of 1980. It became a huge success by 1995 and it is still in edition in Hindi and Urdu language. It has been popular all through these years both as a written book as well as an audio book. The audio book was produced by the music company called the Plus Music and has sold about a hundred thousand copies.
The duo parted ways in the year 1981. Since then Javed has worked independently and has scripted many movies. Javed Akhtar won a national award for best lyricist for the hit movie Saaz in the year 1996. This trend carried on for two more years as he won national awards for the movies Border and Godmother in 1997 and 1998 respectively. He has scripted some hit films like Sagar, Arjun and Betaab. But after a while, he returned back to being a lyricist.
Javed Akhtar has also won 7 Filmfare awards and the government of India has honored with the titles of Padma Shree and Padma Bhushan. He is a multi-talented personality who continues to get rave reviews and awards for his works. His first collection of Urdu poems was released in the year 1995. It was read by millions in both Hindi and Urdu. It was also released as an album and sold many CD's. The famous artist M.F. Hussain is said to have painted around 16 canvases inspired from his poems.
Contribution To The Society: Javed Akhtar has always had the high sense of social reforms and has been associated with variety of social projects. He is a known social commentator and an activist. He has writer a number of sentimental poems on communalism, social disparities, Women's rights and her position in the society. He wrote an inspirational song which was declared by the Ministry of Human Resource Development as a message to the misguided youth to come forward and contribute in positively building up of the nation in the year of 1995. He is also the president of Muslim For Secular Democracy MFSD. In the year of 2003, he founded it on the great occasion of Mahatma Gandhi's birthday. He is also an active part of the organization called the Citizens for Justice and Peace. He was nominated as a honorable member of the Rajya Sabha by the then President of India in the year of 2010. He has addressed many universities like: Harvard University (On secular element in Urdu poetry), University of Mary Land (On forces to central fundamentalism), Columbia University (On social justice and communal harmony), Oxford University (On Indian cinema and new icons), University of London (Modern Urdu Poetry), etc.
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Liverpool players get hammered by former Anfield star
Horacio Mendez November 29, 2018 November 29, 2018 0
Midfielders Jordan Henderson, James Milner and Gini Wijnaldum have been bashed by former Liverpool striker Dean Saunders for their performance in the trip to Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League on Wednesday.
Jurgen Klopp took his team to France knowing that at least a draw was very much-needed in order to avoid a desperate situation of having to beat Napoli at all cost in the final game of the group stage.
But it turned out to be a frustrating night for the Reds who conceded two goals in the first half which did enough damage even though James Milner pulled a goal back for the away side.
As a result, former Liverpool man Dean Saunders has suggested that Milner and two other players in the team’s midfield were not pulling their weight in clash with PSG.
“Verratti dominated the midfield. It was Henderson, Wijnaldum and Milner in the midfield and they just looked a bit short,” said Saunders “I thought they got found out a little bit.
“If you’re going to be brutally honest, they’re just lacking a bit of class, the three of them. Milner, great professional, having a great season but he’s not a central midfield player really. Henderson has got a brilliant attitude but the two of them can’t run a game of football. Wijnaldum can’t run a game of football.
“Paul Scholes could. Roy Keane could. Paul Ince could, Lampard, Gerrard, they could. (Liverpool’s trio) got a bit outclassed.”
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Rafa Benitez’s message to Liverpool fans ahead of crucial clash in Premier League title race
Jeffery Carter April 30, 2019 April 30, 2019 0
Former Liverpool manager Rafa Benitez has spoken out to the Reds’ fans ahead of the crucial clash between Newcastle and Liverpool in the Premier League.
For the past four months, Manchester City and Jurgen Klopp’s men have been locked in a very long and consistent battle for the Premier League title.
Despite starting the season in somewhat of a transition after the arrivals of several players in the summer transfer window, the Reds have put together a brilliant run to challenge for the league crown.
However, the fact that Manchester City were able to see off Burnley with a very narrow win on Sunday means that the race for the title is in favour of City with only two games left to play.
Liverpool now have arguably the harder fixtures left with a trip to Newcastle next on the schedule.
The Magpies are managed of course by former Liverpool boss Rafa Benitez, who has stated that he is not out to hand any favours to his old club when they meet.
“We will do what we have done the whole season and that’s try to win the game,” Benitez told the Liverpool Echo
“We play at home in front of our own fans and will try to do our best.
“It’s my responsibility to look after Newcastle and if I was on the other side, I would be expecting the opposition to do their best and the manager to try his best.”
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Japan: Australian Perspectives
Australian architects and designers and Japan
CURATOR’S INTRODUCTION
THE EXHIBITORS
ADRIAN BODDY
TONY CARO
RO COOK
TONY COOTE
KEITH PIKE
AYAKO SAITO
MARK STILES (curator) received his PhD from the University of NSW in 2010. He first visited Japan in 1967 when his parents were posted to the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo, and he has returned many times since. In 2013 Mark curated the successful exhibition at the Incinerator Art Space to mark the centenary of the designers of Canberra, Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin.
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The culture of Japan has influenced Western artists and architects since the late nineteenth century. There is a particular link between modern architecture and Japan, a link first established by the great American architect Frank Lloyd Wright before the First World War and followed by many others since.
In Australia architectural interest in Japan was stimulated by the Arts and Crafts movement and is one thread in the story of the Federation house. Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin brought the American version of the Arts and Crafts to Australia when they won the competition for the design of Canberra in 1912. Between the wars it was print-makers and ceramic artists who maintained a creative connection to Japan, though Arthur Lindsay Sadler, a professor at the University of Sydney, published a major study of Japanese architecture, one of the most thorough to appear in English, in 1941.
Australian architects began to take a renewed interest in Japan after the Second World War, prompted by the continuing prestige of Frank Lloyd Wright and the work of the postwar generation of Japanese architects led by Kenzo Tange and Kunio Maekawa. The publication of new English translations of classic Zen texts such as The Book of Tea and In Praise of Shadows as well as studies of the Japanese vernacular by Teiji Itoh and others furthered Western interest. Critics such as Robin Boyd, Adrian Snodgrass and Jennifer Taylor carried this into Australian architecture schools through their teaching and writing, Boyd on Kenzo Tange, Taylor on Fumihiko Maki and Snodgrass on traditional Japanese architecture in particular.
But it was the direct experience of Japan by Australian architects that has had the most enduring effect, starting with the Sydney architect Peter Muller in the 1950s. Not all followed Muller’s example of initiation into a Zen sect but the exposure to the noble traditions of Japanese architecture – its truth to materials, its simplicity, respect for landscape, and brilliant use of space – has been an ongoing revelation for Australians. From the Sydney School of the 1960s until today, Australian architects have found what Wright famously found in Japanese architecture long ago – the elimination of the insignificant, a material means to a spiritual end and an unending source of inspiration for their own work.
Other art forms have discovered the power of these principles too, and this exhibition presents some recent examples of this most productive connection. Each of the exhibitors was asked to reflect on their relationship to Japan in their own way.
Incinerator Art Space,
2 Small Street Willoughby NSW 2068
The exhibition is open
10am – 4pm, Wednesdays to Sundays,
and will run from 6 May to 24 May 2015.
Floor Talk
Sunday 10 May at 2pm Adrian Boddy and Tony Caro
Sunday 17 May at 2pm Keith Pike
Sunday 24 May at 2pm Tony Coote
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT AND JAPAN
JAPAN : AUSTRALIAN PERSPECTIVES
Website by THE IMAJING
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